JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY MANIFESTO

We are the only ‘Reliable Opposition Party’ Defending People's Living Conditions and Peace

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The House of Councilors election will be held soon. The Koizumi Cabinet has been replaced by Prime Minister ABE Shinzo's cabinet. People's living conditions, in particular hardships related to cutbacks in welfare services and the worsening employment situation, are getting more and more serious. The new Cabinet has been very reckless with its policies opposing peace and democracy.

The JCP will call on the voters to stop the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komei Party from continuing with policies that undermine people's living conditions and peace.

“Poverty and social disparities" are found everywhere in our society, in which an increasing number of people have difficulty supporting their own lives even with a job. The fixed-rate tax cuts have been abolished. A substantial residential tax increase has been imposed. Medical and nursing-care insurance programs have been adversely reformed. The government's irresponsible mismanagement of the national pension system has left many pension records unidentified. These are problems that make many people feel uneasy about making plans for their future. In stark contrast, large corporations, the business sector, and a handful of wealthy people are enjoying the largest ever profits and gains in wealth that are even larger than those that they amassed in the bubble economy, boasting of an “economic boom that is even longer than the 57-month boom in the second half of the 1960s." The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) is still demanding more corporate tax breaks and a further consumption tax increase. If the LDP-Komei government led by Prime Minister Abe continues to stay in power, every effort made by the working people to improve their living conditions could come to nothing.

We cannot stand for the recklessness of the Abe Cabinet concerning the questions of peace and democracy. Prime Minister Abe has publicly pledged to have the Constitution revised during his tenure in office and made clear that he will put it forward as a major issue in the House of Councilors election. The recent Ordinary Session of the Diet enacted the bill to establish procedures for holding a referendum on constitutional revision in disregard of strong opposition. The Liberal Democratic Party and other parties are planning to have the Diet initiate in 2010 a process of revising the Constitution. The Abe Cabinet for now intends to change the government interpretation of the Constitution so as to enable Japan to use force in situations that have nothing to do with Japan's security. These moves are being prompted by the U.S. intention to drag Japan onto the path of war under its preemptive attack strategy on a global scale. Prime Minister Abe advocates that Japan should maintain the alliance bound by blood with the United States and openly states that the aim of the constitutional revision is to have Japan fight in wars abroad with the United States.

To make matters worse, the forces that are neglectful of the people's well-being and are rushing to revise the Constitution are led by a group of supporters of the Yasukuni Shrine interpretation of history that describes Japan's past war of aggression as a “just war" and Japan before and during World War II as a “beautiful country" despite its aggression abroad and state of militarism within the country. In fact, Prime Minister Abe's statement that “military comfort women" were not coerced into having sex with Japanese soldiers and his making an offering to Yasukuni Shrine was taken as having the same meaning as his official worship at the shrine.

Recently, it has been revealed that the Self-Defense Forces' intelligence security unit on a daily basis has been monitoring people's movements that are critical of the government and the SDF, in flagrant violation of the Constitution and its defense of basic human rights.

Those forces that refuse to admit that Japan was wrong in carrying out the war of aggression are now seeking to establish a Constitution that will enable Japan to fight wars abroad again. If the military apparatus that keeps the public under surveillance is recognized as a constitutional military force reigning over the people, it will mean a revival of militarism under which Japan will become a country terrified by people worldwide as well as the Japanese themselves.

The Komei Party is the Abe government's coalition partner helping to neglect the well-being of the people and carry out reckless policies. Eight years have passed since the Komei Party joined with the Liberal Democratic Party in a coalition government in 1999. During this period, the Japanese people have been forced to pay an extra 13 trillion yen in taxes. A typical family of four will be asked to pay an extra 400 thousand yen a year. This includes a massive tax increase due to the abolition of the fixed-rate tax cuts, a measure that was enthusiastically called for by the Komei Party. The tax increase now has repercussions for the whole country. A newspaper correctly likened the Komei Party to “war criminals".

In the adverse revision of the Fundamental Law of Education and the enactment of the law to establish procedures for constitutional amendments, the Komei Party's role was indispensable. It was behind the bill to upgrade the Defense Agency to a ministry and the bill to adversely revise the Fundamental Law of Education in exchange for the passage of “improvement in the allowance for dependent children," which it touts as its own achievement. A national newspaper editorial at the time described the trade as irrelevant, citing Komei's use of party politics.

However, the Komei Party proclaims itself to be the “party for welfare" or the “party for peace". It has deceived the public into accepting adverse government policies by falsely depicting them as good policies. Pretending to put brakes on reckless LDP government policies, the Komei Party is in fact helping to accelerate them. This represents the Komei Party's reactionary raison d'etre.

What is more, the Komei Party has for years been brazen about its relationship with Soka Gakkai as one that represents the “unity of politics and religion." Soka Gakkai came under fire in 1970 when it tried to suppress the freedom of speech and the press by interfering with publication of a critical book about Soka Gakkai. Following this incident, IKEDA Daisaku, Soka Gakkai president at the time, said he “deeply regretted" it and this was taken as his promise that Soka Gakkai would practice the “separation of religion and politics." But in its review of the March-April simultaneous local election campaign, Soka Gakkai has not only praised the election of all Komei Party candidates as its victory, it has gone as far as to threaten Komei members of local assemblies by saying that they must not forget that they were elected thanks to Soka Gakkai's efforts.

The pro-Yasukuni forces who refuse to show remorse over the past Japanese war of aggression and the Komei Party and Soka Gakkai forming a unity of politics and religion to assist in the promotion of undemocratic policies make up the worst form of alliance promoting adverse policies.

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Another key issue in the upcoming House of Councilors election is choosing a party capable of leading an effective offensive against the LDP-Komei government led by Prime Minister Abe. The present focus of media attention is on the “two major parties," indicating that a confrontation between the LDP and the DPJ is what the coming election is all about.

The Democratic Party is trying hard to stage its “confrontation" with the LDP. However, the policy line that has been followed by the DPJ is indistinguishable from the LDP line. In dealing with economic issues, it has been an advocate of “structural reforms." It supported easing regulations under the labor laws. It supported adverse revision of the nursing care insurance law. It called for cutbacks in public assistance to dependent children of mother-child families as well as tax breaks for large corporations. The DPJ supported legislation to upgrade the Defense Agency to a ministry and to establish a provision to make overseas dispatches of Self-Defense Forces a permanent SDF function. The enacted law to establish procedures for amending the Constitution was precisely what the DPJ had been calling for. The DPJ is the same as the LDP in taking the position that the Japan-U.S. military alliance should be maintained and even strengthened. It has also kept in step with the LDP in its call for the Constitution to be revised. Its view on the question of “exercising the right of collective self-defense" is no different from the LDP's. The DPJ includes many politicians who are pro-Yasukuni Shrine, who insist that “military comfort women were non-existent," and who affirm and even praise Japan's past war of aggression.

The fact that the DPJ shares the LDP position is clear from its relationship with the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren). In drafting its policies, the DPJ holds discussion with Nippon Keidanren to have its policy proposals assessed and receives donations in accordance with the assessment. The DPJ is unable to understand the real needs of the people and it competes with the ruling parties for the most undemocratic policies.

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In the election, we will emphasize that increasing the number of seats of the most reliable opposition party, the JCP, is the surest way to stop the LDP-Komei government of Prime Minister Abe from continuing the reckless policies that disregard the needs of the people and destroy peace and democracy.

We will secure JCP seats to stop the LDP-Komei government of Prime Minister Abe.

JCP seats in the Diet are the surest way to stop the LDP-Komei government under Prime Minister Abe from continuing to run wild, contrary to the people's interests. The root cause of growing poverty and social disparities is the policy serving the interests of large corporations. Unless this policy is corrected, the general public will not become free of anxieties about their living conditions.

The Japanese government's zeal for fighting wars abroad arises from its subservience to the United States that makes Japan bound by its military alliance with the United States. The pro-Yasukuni Shrine forces, which justify the past Japanese war of aggression and colonial rule, are promoting this dangerous move, which can be thwarted only by increasing the number of JCP seats in the Diet because the JCP is the only party that has been consistent in advocating peace, democracy and people's sovereignty since the prewar days.

JCP seats in the Diet are essential for putting up opposition to the adverse policies promoted jointly by the ruling LDP-Komei coalition and the opposition DPJ

In 2006, the Defense Agency was upgraded to a ministry, and the Self-Defense Forces' overseas missions were also upgraded to a permanent main task. The LDP, Komei, and DPJ bulldozed these legislative measures through the Diet. In this year's Ordinary Session of the Diet, the law to establish procedures for revising the Constitution (the national referendum law) was enacted. The ruling parties and the opposition DPJ together promoted the bill. The bill that was enacted was “almost in line with the DPJ proposal" as former DPJ President MAEHARA Seiji stated. The DPJ also joined together with the ruling parties for the labor law reform aimed at deregulating the labor market. In order to effectively fight against the adverse political aims of the LDP and the DPJ, we need to secure JCP seats in the Diet.

The JCP uses its strength in the Diet in cooperation with grassroots movements to influence national politics by putting forward the demands of the people. With its 9 seats in the House of Councilors and 9 seats in the House of Representatives, the JCP has been instrumental in influencing national politics in cooperation with popular movements at the grassroots level. It has succeeded in forcing companies to pay 85.2 billion yen in back pay for forced overtime work without pay. This was made possible because the JCP, in cooperation with movements at places of work, repeatedly brought up the issue in the Diet. As a result, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare issued the directive urging employers to end the use of forced overtime work without pay. We also took up workers' suffering from exploitation using “contract labor" in disguise, and won their direct employment.

JCP seats in the Diet are essential for eliminating irregularities and corruption, and for defending parliamentary democracy. There is a wide gulf between Nagatacho politicians and the general public in the perception of “politics and money". This being what the Japanese political world is all about, the Japanese Communist Party has firmly stood for a “clear political stance." Since last year, the JCP has uncovered various money-related suspicions of corruption hanging over various politicians. The JCP has been calling for donations by companies and other organizations to politicians to be banned in order to eradicate the major source of political corruption. The JCP has refused to accept the government subsidy to political parties because it is a practice of distributing tax money among parties that do not work for the public interest.

JCP seats will enable the Japanese people to share the wish for peace with other peoples. Since 1999, the JCP has carried out an independent diplomacy as an opposition party, putting emphasis on developing exchanges and dialogues with governments of other Asian countries. The JCP Program states, the JCP will “attach importance to promoting friendship and exchanges with Asian countries on the premise that Japan expresses remorse for its war of aggression and colonization in the past." It also states that the JCP will “exert efforts to establish peaceful coexistence among countries with different social systems and establish dialogue as well as relations of coexistence among various civilizations with different values." This JCP position has been hailed and supported by Islamic countries as well as other Asian countries.

The JCP's position is not one of remaining satisfied with the status-quo as an opposition party forever. Only by increasing the number of seats of the “reliable opposition party" in the Diet can we pave the way for establishing a real democratic government. The JCP has a far-reaching plan, the “Proposal for Remaking Japan," that will put an end to the political, economic, social ,and diplomatic distortions facing our country. The plan puts forward the following three main objectives:

• (1) Break away from policies that serve the interests of large corporations and financial circles, switch the way tax money is used and collected to one of defending people's living conditions, and establish regulations for defending the people's living conditions and civil rights.
• (2) Abrogate the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, a military alliance treaty, to put an end to policies of subservience to the United States so Japan can truly contribute to friendship and peace with the rest of Asia and the World.
• (3) Defend all provisions of the Constitution, and have provisions on peace, human rights and democracy implemented fully as the country's political and social foundation

The JCP has a vision and policy for moving away from LDP politics. This is why the JCP is capable of firmly standing for the defense of people's interests in opposition to LDP politics and the continuation of LDP politics.

This year marks the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Communist Party. The JCP has stood firmly for peace and people's sovereignty without succumbing to any coercion. It has maintained a clean political posture. It has been practicing sovereign independence repelling all forms of foreign pressure.

The JCP is always present to resolve people's hardships. This is the principled position of the JCP since its founding.

Only a JCP advance can stop the misgovernment and provide a people-first policy in lieu of LDP politics. We ask everyone to lend a hand to the JCP to achieve a major advance in the upcoming election.

JCP'S 12 MAIN POLICIES FOR HOUSE OF COUNCILORS ELECTION

(Gist)

I. The problem of ‘unidentified pension records' must be completely resolved without delay

<The state has responsibility to carry out the following five urgent measures>

1. Immediately send pension premium payment records to all people who now receive pension benefits or who are enrolled in a pension plan.

2. Provide information about “missing" pension premium payment records to all possible people without narrowing the scope of investigation.

3. Pay pension benefits in accordance to the pension holders' explanation about their enrollment in a pension plan, even if they do not have receipts or any other evidence that support their claim of payment of premiums.

4. Correct all errors in computerized data by checking them against handwritten records.

5. Abolishing the Social Insurance Agency will mean allowing the government to disclaim responsibility for the present problem. The need now is to stop using money collected as pension premiums for purposes that have nothing to do with the pension system and ban arranging executive jobs in the non-government sector for retired ministry-level officials.

THREE WAYS TO REDRESS ECONOMIC DISPARITIES

II. Change the way tax money is used

Stop the sizeable residential tax increase

Oppose an increase in the consumption tax, the worst kind of regressive taxation.

• - End the wasteful large public works projects benefiting vested interests, old and new.
• - Cut wasteful expenditures on large public works projects.
• - Use tax revenue for highway construction and other particular purposes for general purposes.
• - Direct public works projects to improving welfare services, education, disaster prevention, and environmental protection.

Scale back on military expenditure

• - Stop funding under the name of ‘sympathy budget' for U.S. forces in Japan.
• - Substantially reduce funding for the Aegis ships, “helicopter-carriers", the Type 90 tanks, and for overseas dispatches of troops.
• - Revoke the decision to shoulder the 3 trillion yen cast for the U.S. military realignment in Japan.

Require large corporations and the wealthy to shoulder tax burdens according to the ability to pay

• - Raise the tax rate on large corporations to the level of 10 years ago, and save 4 trillion yen.
• - Raise the rate of the highest tax brackets on incomes and on capital, and apply the concept of gross taxation, and implement progressive taxation.

Take steps to restore fiscal health while taking necessary measures to defend living standards.

III. Change social welfare policy by ending cutbacks in expenditures on protecting lives and improving social services to defend people's right to live and have decent living conditions.

Make every effort to stop poverty increasing and protect people's lives through implementation of the ONE TRILLION-YEN EMERGENCY WELFARE PLAN:

• (1) The National Health Insurance tax should be reduced by 10,000 yen per person and the local governments should stop invalidating the National Health Insurance cards of those who are in arrears in payment of the health insurance tax;
• (2) The nursing care insurance tax as well as the user fees for services should be lowered or exempted for needy people, and the quality of nursing care for needy people, and the quality of nursing care services to guarantee humane living conditions should be preserved;
• (3) A national standard should be established for free medical services for pre-school children.
• (4) Protect the living conditions and rights of handicapped people through revocation of the present principle requiring handicapped people to pay for services according to their ability to pay under the law for the promotion of their self-support.
• (5) Stop cutbacks in public assistance to households that are below the poverty level and in the allowance for single parent families.

Improve the pension scheme, medical services, and nursing care services

• - Establish a minimum pension benefit system to help all those who are not entitled to receive pension benefits and those people whose pension benefits are inadequate.
• - Avoid increasing disparities in medical services so that people can obtain medical care whether they live in rural areas or urban districts.

IV. Change employment policy by banning the use of ‘throw-away workers' and by establishing rules ensuring that workers can work with dignity

• - Stop employers using workers as “disposable commodities," defend jobs and worker rights for contingent workers
• - Raise the minimum wage and adopt policies and prevent people from becoming “working poor."
• - Stop the Abe Cabinet's “labor big bang" plan that would leave long working hours unregulated and destroy worker rights in order to allow employers to use more contingent workers.

OPPOSE ADVERSE REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND WORK TO BUILD A PEACEFUL JAPAN

V Oppose adverse revision of the Constitution that will allow Japan to fight wars abroad.

• - The JCP will endeavor to defend Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, a treasure of the world, by developing the cooperation of the widest possible range of people irrespective of ideology and party affiliation.
• - We oppose the government move toward changing the interpretation to reverse the stated government position that “Constitutionally, Japan cannot exercise the right of collective self-defense."
• - We oppose the LDP-Komei government's glorification of Japan's past war of aggression and demand that the Prime Minister no longer worship or make offerings at Yasukuni Shrine.
• - We demand that the government and the ruling parties strictly follow the Chief Cabinet KONO Yoichi statement of 1993 offering an apology for the issue of “military comfort women" and the Prime Minister MURAYAMA Tomiichi statement of 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II expressing remorse for Japan's war of aggression and colonial rule. .
• - We demand that the Defense Ministry and the Self-Defense Forces stop unconstitutional information gathering and surveillance of the public and disclose everything they have done so far in this regard.
• - The JCP will do its utmost to defend all constitutional provisions on fundamental human rights, democracy, and equality between men and women.

VI. Oppose the realignment and strengthening of the functions of the Japan-U.S. military alliance and switch to an independent diplomacy free from subservience to the U.S.

We oppose the ongoing realignment of U.S. forces in Japan that is aimed at binding Japan to the U.S. preemptive attack strategy.

• - Oppose the strengthening of functions of U.S. military bases and their perpetuation being done in the name of U.S. military realignment.
• - Oppose the aggressive transformation of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. We will do our utmost to have a majority of the people share the call for the abrogation of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the creation of an independent and peaceful Japan.

We demand a swift withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq and work to achieve a peaceful international order in line with the spirit of the United Nations Charter.

• - Withdraw Self-Defense Force units from Iraq without delay; oppose all forms of overseas dispatch of Self-Defense Force troops.
• - Break with policies subservient to the United States and shift Japan's diplomacy to one seeking to establish and maintain sovereign independence and peace in the interest of the Japanese people.
• - Make every effort to achieve a peaceful and equitable international society that has overcome such problems as hunger, poverty, and human rights violations, strictly abiding by rules for peace based on the United Nations Charter.
• - Take effective measures for the prevention of nuclear war and the abolition of nuclear weapons as a life or death matter; work to have the Three Non-Nuclear Principles strictly observed.
• - Make every effort to have North Korea-related issues - nuclear programs, abduction of foreign citizens, and settlement of historical questions - comprehensively resolved using the framework set by the Six Party Talks and the Japan DPRK Pyongyang Declaration.

FOR BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS, EDUCAATION, CHILD RAISING, ENVIRONMENT, AND FOR IMPROVEMENT OF WOMEN'S SOCIAL STATUS

VII. Stop the state sacrificing local interests and support small- and medium-sized businesses and local economies.

We will prevent local communities from collapsing

• - Stop eliminating local public facilities and public transit systems and revitalize them in order to make local communities in which residents can live free of anxieties.
• - Work to develop local economies and rebuild agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, cooperating with conservatives who share the desire to revitalize local economies with us in the movement throughout the country to improve local towns.

We will extend direct assistance to small- and medium-sized businesses by:

• - Working for a drastic increase in the government budget for small- and medium-sized businesses to 2 percent of the general expenditure or about one-trillion yen;
• - Revoking the planned adverse revision of the credit-guarantee system that helps small- and-medium-sized enterprises establish their financing channels with banks and other financial institutions, and improve the Credit Guarantee Association's guaranteeing functions; stopping privatizing/consolidating government-affiliated financial institutions so that the government can expand low-interest, long-term, and fixed financing for small- and medium-sized businesses;
• - Regulating large corporations' high-handedness in order to prevent them from arbitrarily bringing down the purchasing unit prices of supplies;
• - Terminating wasteful large-scale public works projects to put resources in projects to help improve living conditions; ensuring that contracts for public works projects will be awarded to small- and medium-sized businesses by dividing up orders;
• - Establishing regulations over large-scale retail stores' opening/closing and store hours, and allowing local governments to replace the state in certifying and supporting shopping districts;

We will work to improve local governments' financial base by:

• - Opposing cutbacks on tax money allocated to local governments and adverse reform of the grant system in order to improve local resources;
• - Demanding that the functions for securing and adjusting resources for local tax money allocation be strengthened so that money necessary for welfare services for residents be provided;
• - Opposing cuts in state subsidies for education and welfare services and the state's disclaiming of responsibility for them.

VIII. Block the total liberalization of imports of agricultural products, and increase Japan's food self-sufficiency rate.

• - We oppose the complete liberalization of agricultural imports and will make an effort to establish trade rules that secure food sovereignty for all nations.
• - All farmers who wish to work or continue to work on the farm regardless of the size of their farm should be able to count on state support, and the so-called “comprehensive policy" for stabilizing agricultural operation should be ended.
• - Price supports will be combined with income compensation through direct payments to farmers in disadvantaged areas.
• - The state subsidy for the testing of all cattle less than 20 months of age for mad cow disease (BSE) should be continued after July 2008.
• - Beef and all foods that contain beef ingredients should be required to be sold with origin labeling to ensure that consumers can exercise a right to choose.

IX. Fulfill the agreements of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change with low-energy and low-carbon emissions.

In order for Japan to fulfill its pledge to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 6 percent which it made in the Kyoto Protocol:

• - The Japanese government and business sector will conclude an agreement on cutting gas emissions;
• - The current tax on energy sources will be reviewed with the view of introducing an environment tax that takes into account carbon dioxide gas emissions.
• - Along with energy saving efforts in producing goods and in managing various facilities, we will promote improvement in life style and economic activities through restraining excessively long office hours and working hours, stopping the construction of more huge apartments and other buildings in the name of urban development, and limiting opening of suburban outlets.

Set medium- and long-term goals in the shifting of society to one of low-energy and fewer carbon emissions.

• - Japan should cut its carbon dioxide gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020 and 70 percent by 2050 through restructuring the economic system and life style.

Japan should stop constructing new nuclear power plants and stage by stage give up relying on nuclear power generation.

X. End state interference in education under the revised Fundamental Law of Education and establish education that allows for the sound growth of children, and improve conditions for raising children without anxiety.

(1) We oppose competitive and selective education with state intervention and let the Constitution guide the role and form of education.

• - Education should be based on the constitutional principles of peace, respect for human rights, and democracy. We oppose state intervention in the content and methods of education. We oppose the imposition of “patriotism" that violates freedom of thought and conscience and oppose forcing students and teachers to sing “Kimigayo" (“The Emperor's Reign") and hoist the Hinomaru (Rising Sun) flag at school ceremonies. We oppose education that praises the past Japanese war of aggression and colonial rule.
• - We oppose continuing to give national academic achievement tests that distort education. We will work to rectify the present education situation that drives children into competition and selective education.
• - We will work to end the present competitive or controlled form of education, which is the source of the issue of school bullying, and establish education that will value human dignity. We will stop the Education Ministry from setting numerical targets for “halving the number of school bullying cases" because this way will only help teachers turn their eyes from bullying.
• - We will work to make schools, including classes, places for children to learn to respect each other's human rights and human dignity and acquire civic morals.
• - We will make the class size smaller so that every child in the class understands the lesson.
• - We will protect children and education from poverty and social disparities. The state subsidy system of financial assistance to students attending school will be restored with a larger budget. Measures to reduce students' burden of tuition at high schools, universities and colleges should be substantially expanded along with the establishment of scholarships and grants to help young people who otherwise are forced to give up studying in higher educational institutions due to high tuitions.
• - We will strive for schools with teaching staff, guardians, children, and residents of the community participating in running them, so that good cross-sector communications are maintained.

(2) We insist that stable livelihoods and economic security should be improved so that raising children can be done without anxieties

• - Both men and women should be able to work while raising children.
• - Parents' economic burdens for child raising should be reduced.

XI. Stop any attempt to backpedal from the principle of equality between men and women, and establish equality between the sexes in all areas of society.

Review and amend wherever necessary civil code provisions that are in contravention of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

XII. Investigate corrupt relations between politicians, bureaucrats and business circles, get rid of all vested interests and privileges, prohibit political fund donations by corporations or organizations, and abolish the government subsidy to political parties.

Eliminate political corruptions as well as irregularities and establish clean politics.

Ban political contributions by corporations and other organizations.

Abolish the state subsidy to political parties.

Ban bid-rigging schemes arranged by bureaucrats and the “amakudari" practice arranging well paying jobs for retired government officials at government affiliated or non-government corporations.

- Akahata, June 16, 2007

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