Okinawa Social Mass Party - Okinawa Social Mass Party

Japanese: 沖縄社会大衆党 - おきなわしゃかいたいしゅうとう

A political party in Okinawa. Abbreviated as Shadaito. Founded in October 1950 in Okinawa, under the US military occupation after World War II. With the general working class as its support base, the party advocated the implementation of democratic social policies as its platform. In the 1960s, it promoted the movement as a central figure in the Okinawa Prefecture Homeland Reversion Council (Reversion Council), a unified organization of the movement for reversion to the mainland (→Reversion of Okinawa). After the reversion in 1972, there was a period of uncertainty over the party's survival, but it consolidated its position by getting its chairman, Koichi Taira, elected as governor of Okinawa Prefecture. As of 2013, the party has only one member of the Diet, Senator Keiko Itokazu, but it is a unique presence as a local political party.

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Japanese:

沖縄の政党。略称社大党。第2次世界大戦後のアメリカ軍占領下の沖縄で，1950年10月に結党。一般勤労者階層を支持基盤とし，民主主義による社会政策の実施などを政綱に掲げた。1960年代に入り，本土復帰運動の統一組織，沖縄県祖国復帰協議会（復帰協）の中心的存在として運動を推進した（→沖縄返還）。1972年の復帰後，党の存続をめぐり一時動揺したが，平良幸一委員長を沖縄県知事に当選させるなど，態勢を固めた。2013年現在，所属国会議員は糸数慶子参議院議員 1人だが，地方政党として特異な存在である。

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