Kizuna Party
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Kizuna Party
新党きづな Shintō Kizuna |
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| President | Akira Uchiyama |
| Secretary-General | Koichirō Watanabe |
| Founded | December 30, 2011 |
| Dissolved | November 15, 2012 (merged into People's Life First) |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Anti-nuclear power Anti-TPP Postal privatization |
The Kizuna Party (新党きづな Shintō Kizuna?, New Party Kizuna) was a center-left political party in Japan that was formed in January 2012. The party was created by nine the House of Representatives members who resigned from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Democratic Party of Japan on December 30, 2011, in protest of the latter's decision to raise to country's consumption tax rate from 5% to 10% in two years.
The new party was formed on January 4, 2012 and led by Akira Uchiyama, the member for the Chiba 7th district in Chiba Prefecture. The party opposed both the proposed consumption tax increase and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement. The party dissolved less than a year later in November 2012 and merged with the People's Life First party, another party that had been formed in 2012 in the lead up to the December 2012 general election.
On August 3, 2012 the Kizuna Party in concert with six other minor opposition parties (People's Life First, Japanese Communist Party, Social Democratic Party, Your Party, New Party Nippon (which has no lower-house lawmaker) and the New Renaissance Party) agreed to submit a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in an effort to block the passage of the bill raising Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10%. In the Japanese diet the support of 51 lawmakers is required to submit a co-confidence motion to the lower house. The motion was submitted to the lower house on August 7, along with a censure motion against Noda. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party was also considering its own no-confidence motion and censure motions if Noda did not agree to call a general election. The no-confidence motion was voted down 246 to 86, with the DPJ voting against and the LDP and its partner New Komeito deciding to be absent from the vote after Noda agreed to hold elections "soon".
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