Japan Innovation Party
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The Japan Innovation Party (日本維新の会, Nippon Ishin no Kai; Japan Restoration Association) is a conservative, centre-right to right-wing and populist political party in Japan. The party was as Initiatives from Osaka in October 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party. It became the third-biggest opposition party in the National Diet following the 2016 House of Councillors election. Since 2025, the party has been in a coalition agreement to provide confidence and supply to the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The Japan Innovation Party advocates decentralization, federalism (Dōshūsei), and limited government policies. Arguing to remove defense spending limits, and standing with the LDP on revising the constitution, the party gained conservative support during the 2021 general election, primarily in Osaka. The party has represented a form of right-wing populism that until 2025 opposed the LDP's entrenched control over Japanese politics and bureaucracy, known as the 1955 system.
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| Position | Name |
| Leader | Hirofumi Yoshimura |
| Co-Leader and Parliamentary Leader | Fumitake Fujita |
| Secretary-General | Hiroshi Nakatsuka |
| Chairman of the Policy Research Council | Alex Saito |
| Chairman of the General Affairs Committee | Kaori Takagi |
| Chairman of the Diet Affairs Committee | Takashi Endo |
| Chairman of the House of Councillors Caucus | Hitoshi Asada |
| Leaders | Took office | Left office | |
| Tōru Hashimoto | 2 November 2015 | 12 December 2015 | |
| Ichirō Matsui | 12 December 2015 | 23 August 2016 | |
| Ichirō Matsui | Toranosuke Katayama | 23 August 2016 | 27 November 2021 |
| Nobuyuki Baba | 27 November 2021 | 27 August 2022 | |
| Nobuyuki Baba | 27 August 2022 | 1 December 2024 | |
| Hirofumi Yoshimura | Seiji Maehara | 1 December 2024 | 8 August 2025 |
| Fumitake Fujita | 8 August 2025 | Incumbent | |
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Total | Position | Status | |||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Seats | +/- | ||||
| 2017 | Ichirō Matsui | 1,765,053 | 3.18 | 3 / 289 | new | 3,387,097 | 6.07 | 8 / 176 | new | 11 / 465 | new | 6th | Opposition |
| 2021 | 4,802,793 | 8.36 | 16 / 289 | 13 | 8,050,830 | 14.0 | 25 / 176 | 17 | 41 / 465 | 30 | 3rd | Opposition | |
| 2024 | Nobuyuki Baba | 6,048,104 | 11.15 | 23 / 289 | 7 | 5,105,127 | 9.36 | 15 / 176 | 10 | 38 / 465 | 3 | 3rd | Opposition (until 2025) |
| Confidence and supply (since 2025) | |||||||||||||
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | Position | Status | |||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Won | +/- | Total | +/- | ||||
| 2016 | Ichirō MatsuiToranosuke Katayama | 3,303,419 | 5.84 | 3 / 73 | new | 5,153,584 | 9.20 | 4 / 48 | new | 7 / 121 | new | 12 / 242 | 7 | 5th | Opposition |
| 2019 | 3,664,530 | 7.28 | 5 / 74 | new | 4,907,844 | 9.80 | 5 / 50 | new | 10 / 124 | new | 16 / 245 | 4 | 4th | Opposition | |
| 2022 | Ichirō Matsui | 5,533,657 | 10.41 | 5 / 74 | 2 | 7,845,985 | 14.79 | 8 / 50 | 4 | 12 / 125 | 5 | 21 / 248 | 5 | 4th | Opposition |
| 2025 | Hirofumi YoshimuraSeiji Maehara | 3,451,834 | 5.84 | 3 / 74 | 2 | 4,375,927 | 7.39 | 4 / 50 | 1 | 7 / 125 | 3 | 19 / 248 | 2 | 5th | Opposition (until 2025) |
| Confidence and supply (since 2025) | |||||||||||||||
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