This article is about the Japanese political party that existed from 1960 to 1994. For other Japanese socialist parties, see Japan Socialist Party (disambiguation).
Declassified United States government documents later revealed that covert CIA funding had also helped encourage the founding of this breakaway party.[11] CIA support was aimed at moderating and subverting the political opposition to the ruling conservativeLiberal Democratic Party, which was the main CIA funded party.[12][13]
The DSP was dissolved in 1994 to join the New Frontier Party. In 1996, the Japan Socialist Party was transformed into the Social Democratic Party. Two years later, in 1998, the New Frontier Party dissolved and most former DSP members eventually joined the Democratic Party of Japan.[10] Despite the dissolution of the DSP in 1994, its youth organisation (Minsha Youth) survived until 2003 and was a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY). After Minsha Youth was dissolved, some of its former members and independent social democrats formed Young Socialists, a new youth organisation which retained full membership in IUSY; however, it was finally dissolved on 8 March 2008 without any successor organisation and abandoned its IUSY membership.[citation needed]
The DSP was rated "moderate",[14][15][16] "moderate social-democratic",[17][2] "centrist"[4][5][6] and "centre-left"[7] by Japanese political standards at the time, but at the same time it was also regarded as a "conservative"[3][8][18] political party. It derived much of its financial and organisational support from the Domei private-sector labour confederation, but unlike other social-democratic political parties in Japan, the party was not hostile to accepting neoliberal policies[19] Due to the DSP's syncretic political position, the party's ideology is often referred to as right-wing social democracy (右派社会民主主義).[20]
The DSP strongly backed the Japan–United States alliance.[2] For this reason, the DSP was often called the "right-wing party" in Japan, but because the DSP had a belief in socialist ideals, it was classified as a political "centrist" along with the old Komeito at the time.[21] In addition, the DSP was a member of left-wing Socialist International.[20][22]
^ abJohn E. Endicott; William R. Heaton, eds. (1996). The Politics Of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea. Routledge. p. 137. ISBN9781000304718. Continuing cooperation between the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the New Liberal Club (NLC), and the conservative Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), will probably assure conservative rule for some time to come.
^ abJames Brown; Guibourg Delamotte; Robert Dujarric, eds. (2021). The Abe Legacy: How Japan Has Been Shaped by Abe Shinzo. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 24. ISBN9781793643315. A coalition of fragments of the old Japan Socialist Party, the former "centrist" Democratic Socialist Party, and disaffected refugees from the LDP, its mastermind was Ozawa Ichiro, the most formidable of Tanaka Kakuei's disciples.
^ abFranklin Henry Hooper; Walter Yust, eds. (1982). Britannica Book of the Year. Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 1950.
^ abJon Halliday, ed. (1975). A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. Pantheon Books. p. 238. ISBN9780394483917. The JCP has rigorously excluded the militant Hansen Seinen linkai, although it has been prepared to collaborate with the Kōmeitō and even the extremely conservative Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) on certain issues in the Diet and ...
^ abMiranda Schreurs (2014). "Japan". In Jeffrey Kopstein; Mark Lichbach; Stephen E. Hanson (eds.). Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge University Press. p. 192. ISBN978-1-139-99138-4.
^William D. Hoover, ed. (2018). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 160. ISBN9781538111567. ... Dōmei was a supporter of the more moderate Democratic Socialist Party while Sōhyō members generally supported the Japan Socialist Party.
^Jeffrey Kopstein; Mark Lichbach; Stephen E. Hanson, eds. (2014). Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge University Press. p. 192. ISBN9780521135740.
^Tomohito Shinoda, ed. (1994). Struggle to Lead: The Japanese Prime Minister's Power and His Conduct of Economic Policy. Johns Hopkins University. p. 228. The conservative Democratic Socialist Party agreed to further discuss the tax reform, while the Japan Socialist Party, the Japan Communist Party, and the Kômeitô demanded the dissolution of the lower house before the reform could be introduced.
^ abIan Neary, ed. (2005). War, Revolution and Japan. Routledge. p. 140. The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) was a right-wing social democratic party, founded by the separation from the SP in I960, and a member of the Socialist International.
