Political Parties in Japan - Major Parties

Major Parties

Party Diet Representation Party Leader Comments
Representatives Councillors
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
Minshu-tō 民主党
("Democratic Party")		 251
 92
 Yoshihiko Noda The DPJ is Japan's largest party. It was formed in the late 1990s as a result of the merger of several anti-LDP parties. Its membership covers a broad spectrum of political beliefs, but it is generally perceived as a center-left party.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
Jiyū Minshu-tō 自由民主党,
or Jimin-tō 自民党		 118
 83
 Shinzō Abe The LDP is Japan's second largest political party. It is a conservative party and is made up of various conservative and centrist factions. Before 2009, the LDP had been in power almost continuously since 1955, when it was formed as a merger of early postwar Japan's two conservative parties, the Liberal Party of Japan, Occupation, and the Democrat Party of Japan, Occupation.

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