The Sun also rises?

BYIt does if you’re Ishihara. Stand Up Japan! is hitching it’s wagon to Ishihara so maybe there really will be a rash of new political movement in Japan in the next election. And the Hanshin Tigers might win the national pennant the next three years. Or Japan could win a gold medal in curling at the next winter games in Sochi. All are possible, but some less so than others.

石原新党「太陽の 党」結成へ…綱領案 に自主憲法

たちあがれ日本（平沼赳夫代表）は１２ 日、石原慎太郎前東京都知事を党首とする 新党を１３日に結成すると発表した。 党名は石原氏の芥川賞受賞作「太陽の季 節」にちなみ、太陽の党とする。結成時の 国会議員はたちあがれ日本の５人（衆院２ 人、参院３人）となる見通し。 １２日判明した綱領案は、「自主憲法の 制定」を掲げるなど保守色を打ち出した。 「国・地方の財政運営と税のあり方を『見 える形』に抜本改革する」と明記し、消費 税の地方税化や地方交付税廃止を主張する 新党「日本維新の会」（代表・橋下徹大阪 市長）との連携に配慮した。 石原氏は民主、自民の２大政党に対抗す る「第３極」の結集を目指しており、次期 衆院選に向け、維新の会やみんなの党との 連携協議を加速させたい考えだ。

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Ishihara’s new party “Party of the Sun” forms… includes autonomous constitution in platform

Stand up Japan! (representative Takeo Hiranuma) announced on the 12 th that it would combine with former Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara’s new party on the 13 th .

The new party’s name, “Party of the Sun,” is reminiscent of Ishihara’s Akutagawa Prize winning work, “The Season of the Sun.” At the time of party formation, the party’s MPs will include the 5 members of Stand up Japan! (2 in the lower house, 3 in the upper house).

In its party platform released on the 12 th , it struck a conservative stance with a call for “establishing an independent constitution.” In calling for radical reform of the national and local financial administration and tax systems into an “understandable form,” it also contemplates cooperation with the new party “Japan Restoration Society” (representative Toru Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka), which asserts a decentralization of consumption tax and abolishment of redistribution of local taxes.

Ishihara is aiming to become the “third pole” in opposition to the two majority parties, the LDP and DPJ, having voiced a desire to accelerate coalition discussions with the Restoration Society and Everybody’s Party.