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Liberal Democratic Party is a Japanese [[Right | The '''Liberal Democratic Party''' ('''LDP'''; Japanese: 自由民主党, ''Jiyū-Minshutō'') is a [[Japan|Japanese]] [[far-right]] political party and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] front group.<ref name="Weiner1994">{{Web citation|author=Tim Weiner|newspaper=|title=C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's|date=1994-10-09|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html|archive-date=2018-10-04|archive-url=https://archive.today/2018.10.04-032748/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html}}</ref> Since its founding in 1955 to the present, the LDP has governed Japan near-uninterrupted, save for a period from 1993 to 1996 and another from 2009 to 2012. | ||
==History== | |||
The Liberal Democratic Party was founded as a merger of two older parties, the [[Liberal Party (Japan)|Liberal Party]] and the [[Democratic Party (Japan)|Democratic Party]], hence the name.<ref name="Bosak2022">{{Web citation|author=Michael Bosak|newspaper=Tokyo Review|title=The Evolution of LDP Factions|date=2022-01-04|url=https://www.tokyoreview.net/2022/01/the-evolution-of-ldp-factions/}}</ref> The merger of these parties was heavily encouraged and financed by CIA assets in Japan, namely [[Eugene Dooman]], [[Kay Sugahara]], and [[Kodama Yoshio]], in order to counteract the recently-established [[People's Republic of China]].<ref name="Weiner1994" /> This CIA operation also involved freeing war criminals such as [[Kishi Nobusuke]] to staff the new party.<ref name="Weiner1994" /> The CIA operation promoted "structured corruption," in the words of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] scholar John Dower, as LDP members frequently took bribes from CIA fronts throughout the twentieth century.<ref name="Weiner1994" /> | |||
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Liberal Democratic Party 自由民主党（じゆうみんしゅとう） | |
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| President | Fumio Kishida 岸田文雄（きしだ ふみお） |
| Founded | 15 November 1955 |
| Newspaper | Jiyū Minshu |
| Think tank | Policy Research Council |
| Membership (2021) | 1,136,445 |
| Political orientation | Conservatism Neoliberalism Reactionaryism Imperialism Factions: Fascism Liberalism |
| Political position | Far-right[1] |
| Slogan | 日本を守る責任 (The responsibility to protect Japan) |
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP; Japanese: 自由民主党, Jiyū-Minshutō) is a Japanese far-right political party and CIA front group.[2] Since its founding in 1955 to the present, the LDP has governed Japan near-uninterrupted, save for a period from 1993 to 1996 and another from 2009 to 2012.
History
The Liberal Democratic Party was founded as a merger of two older parties, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party, hence the name.[3] The merger of these parties was heavily encouraged and financed by CIA assets in Japan, namely Eugene Dooman, Kay Sugahara, and Kodama Yoshio, in order to counteract the recently-established People's Republic of China.[2] This CIA operation also involved freeing war criminals such as Kishi Nobusuke to staff the new party.[2] The CIA operation promoted "structured corruption," in the words of MIT scholar John Dower, as LDP members frequently took bribes from CIA fronts throughout the twentieth century.[2]
- ↑ Wesley Hitomo Yee (January 2018). "Making Japan Great Again: Japan's Liberal Democratic Party as a Far Right Movement" The University of San Francisco.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tim Weiner (1994-10-09). "C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's" Archived from the original on 2018-10-04.
- ↑ Michael Bosak (2022-01-04). "The Evolution of LDP Factions" Tokyo Review.