Talk:List of political parties in Japan

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naming conventions... hi all, i've been trying to fill in some of the dead links of Japanese political parties, just want to make sure i'm using the right names. i've been sticking strictly to english for titles, but in some cases it seems strange. for instance, komeito is more or less accepted in english, but others are hard to pick. in the case of taiyoto, i went with sun party, but that sounds ridiculous. should it be a convention that excepting komeito, we should always use english? ive already noticed other inconsistencies with shinshinto and new frontier in various articles --Munster 02:13, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

~~I agree. I do think only with Komeito Japanese is normal in English, maybe Shinshinto. Gangulf 18:55, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] People's New Party

Where does this new party belong? Major party? Yodakii 04:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] References to party's "Importance"

Could the editors please refrain from using terms with a wieghted bias such as "This party is not popular in Japan" and "The JSP is smaller, less important and not as popular as the JCP." Small parties are not nessesarily unpopular. Also which parties are "defunct" is a subjective opinion.

[edit] Theocratic Buddhism?

I smiled when I saw the New Komeito referred to as a "theocratic Buddhist party". Dictionary.com defines "theocracy" as "a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities." Needless to say, the "theo" in "theocracy" refers to God. Since Buddhism is neither theistic nor pantheistic, the phrase "theocratic Buddhist" seems like a contradiction. Perhaps we should delete the word "theocratic" and simply use the phrase "Buddhist party". Marcello09 01:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)