Japan Future Party
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Tomorrow Party
未来の党 Mirai no Tō |
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| President | Tomoko Abe |
| Secretary-General | Tetsunari Iida |
| Founded | 28 November 2012 |
| Dissolved | 17 May 2013 |
| Merger of | pre-TPJ: People's Life First Tax Cuts Japan |
| Headquarters | Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Colors | Green |
| Website | |
| http://nippon-mirai.jp/ | |
Tomorrow Party of Japan (日本未来の党 Nippon Mirai no Tō), also known as the Japan Future Party, was a Japanese political party, formed on 28 November 2012 by Governor of Shiga Prefecture Yukiko Kada and dissolved in May 2013.
Kada created the party as an alternative to the then-ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and it quickly merged with former political runner Ichirō Ozawa's People's Life Party. It was the only political party which opposed nuclear power and the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership. After a complete failure at the polls in the 16 December 2012 general election the party collapsed, and it officially dissolved in May 2013 to little public notice.
There were talks with Mayor of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura and former Agriculture Minister Masahiko Yamada to further merge the Tax Cuts Japan into the TPJ as a single party. Some of the members of Green Wind also hinted at an intention to join the TPJ as well.
The party's policy platform for the 2012 general election included the elimination of nuclear power by 2022 and freezing the government's plan to raise the sales tax.
It went into the election with 12 members in the upper house and 61 in the lower house, but performed poorly, with only nine members in the lower house being re-elected. The upper house members were not up for re-election.
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