Your Party

Your Party, centre-right political party in Japan. It was established in August 2009 by Watanabe Yoshimi—formerly of the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP), who had resigned from the LDP early that year over policy disagreements with the prime minister, Asō Tarō—and several other members, most of whom had also left the LDP. In Your Party’s first contested election—that for the House of Representatives (lower chamber) of the Diet (national legislature) later that August—it fielded 15 candidates and...