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Independents Surge in Japan, Rocking Nascent Two-Party System

By Jordan Willow Evans on February 27, 2011 12:12 AM

From Monsters and Critics via TPID:

Landslide victories for independent candidates in local elections in central Japan earlier this month shocked the nation’s two major parties and revived public doubt about the nascent two-party system. ‘It is the beginning of the collapse of the two-party system,’ Minoru Morita, a veteran political analyst, said.

The independents, Hideaki Omura, and the Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura, who campaigned for tax cuts, defeated candidates endorsed by the big parties in the Aichi gubernatorial election and the mayoral race.

Jordan Willow Evans

Jordan Willow Evans is an editor and policy analyst based in Goffstown, New Hampshire. She serves as managing editor of Independent Political Report and executive director of the Outsider Media Foundation, a nonprofit news organization focused on independent and alternative political movements. She has studied third parties and political outsiders since her student years.

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2 Comments

  1. fun k. chicken February 27, 2011

    Bruce Cohen, your name links to

    http://www.getbruce.com/

    Is that what you meant to link it to?

  2. Bruce Cohen February 27, 2011

    There were always many parties in Japan when I was there. Especially at the local level.

    And the parties are very fluid, absorbing smaller parties and/or splitting.

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