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Japan is slowly evolving into a two-party system centering around the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP - Jiminto) and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ - Minshuto). The LDP is more conservative and ruled uninterrupted from 1955 until 1993. The DPJ is conservative, but more left and brought in many LDP politicans and Socialists in the mid-nineties.

In addition to the LDP and DPJ, the Clean Government Party (Komeito) roughly brings in 8-10% of the national votes to become the third largest party and at the times the pivotal party. For example, the LDP and Komeito formed a governing coalition in the late nineties until the LDP's collapse in 2009.

Other smaller parties with significant national clout include the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ), Everybody's Party (Minna no To), and the Japanese Communist Party.

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