Sunrise Party
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Sunrise Party
太陽の党 |
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| President |
Shintaro Ishihara & Takeo Hiranuma |
| Secretary-General | Hiroyuki Sonoda |
| Councillors leader | Takao Fujii |
| Founded | 10 April 2010 |
| Dissolved | 17 November 2012 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours | Red and blue |
| Website | |
| www.taiyounotou.jp | |
The Sunrise Party (太陽の党 Taiyō no Tō?, literally "Party of the Sun", SP), formerly known as the Sunrise Party of Japan (たちあがれ日本 Tachiagare Nippon?, literally "Rise up, Japan!", SPJ), was a conservative and nationalist political party in Japan. The SPJ was formed on 10 April 2010 by five Japanese lawmakers and parliamentarians, four former members of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and an independent politician. It was named by the then-Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Shintarō Ishihara who supported the action. At its inception, the party described itself as an "anti-DPJ, non-LDP" political force.
It was renamed and re-formed on 14 November 2012 by co-leaders Ishihara and Takeo Hiranuma. The party merged into the Japan Restoration Party on 17 November 2012.
When the party was founded in 2010 as "Tachiagare Nippon" - the Sunrise Party of Japan. It was named by Shintaro Ishihara, who was then still governor of Tokyo. In 2012, after Ishihara stepped down as governor and announced he would form a new party he renamed the party "The Sunrise Party". The Japanese name of the party, "Taiyo no To", literally translates as "party of the sun", and is taken from Ishihara's novel Season of the Sun. Some other proposed names had included "Nippon Kaishin To" (Japan reform and progress party) and "Reimei" (Dawn).
Yoshio Nakagawa belonged to the party but did not contest his Hokkaidō seat in the 2010 House of Councillors election, and ran instead on the party's national proportional list. Toranosuke Katayama won the party's only proportional seat in this election. LDP Councillor Kyōko Nakayama (proportional, up in 2013) had joined the party in June 2010 together with her husband Nariaki Nakayama, a former LDP Representative.
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