New Party Nippon

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The New Party Nippon (新党「日本」 Shintō Nippon) is a Japanese political party formed on August 21, 2005. The party is headed by Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Koki Kobayashi (deputy leader), Takashi Aoyama, Makoto Taki, and Hiroyuki Arai, who left the Liberal Democratic Party in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization drive.

The new party is seen as aiming to appeal toward urban voters, while the People's New Party, formed around the same time by other LDP rebels, has a more rural support base.

In the Japan general election, 2005, only one member, Makoto Taki, was elected (to a proportional seat in Kinki), with Kobayashi and Aoyama, among others, failing to be elected in either single-seat or proportional districts.

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