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| Abbreviation | KK |
| Website | http://www.kaikakuclub.jp/ |
| Country | Japan |
| Established | 2008-08-28
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| Disbanded | 2010-04-00
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie - June 03, 2010 07:50pm |
| Description | Kaikaku Kurabu, or the Reform Club, was formed prior to the September 2008 Democratic Party of Japan leadership election by three DPJ Diet members dissatisfied with the leadership of Ichiro Ozawa. In their view, Ozawa will win another term as DPJ leader and in an election year the anti-Ozawa forces in the party will have their voices silenced.
According to Japanese law, Diet members elected through proportional representation are not allowed to switch parties, forcing de facto leader Hideo Watanabe to form a new party rather than switching parties with his allies.
In the upper house, where two of the three DPJ renegades sit, the Reform Club could cause major problems if they should side with the ruling LDP-New Komeito bloc. The DPJ and its allies held a plurality of seats (two short of a majority) after the 2007 upper house election, but losing three of those seats would make the coalition more difficult to govern without outside support from more left-wing groups like the Communist Party.
The Reform Club is known as the Japan Renaissance Party in English.
In April 2010 former Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe announced the creation of a new party and the membership of the Japan Renaissance Party followed him into the new party. It is to be called the New Renaissance Party or Reform Party. |
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