Parties Currently Represented in Prefectural and Municipal Assemblies (incomplete)
Note: In legal terms, all of the parties below are "political organizations" (seiji dantai), not "political parties" (seitō, see above).
- New Socialist Party (Shin-Shakaitō), a left breakaway group from the Japanese Socialist Party created in 1996 when the latter formed the Social Democratic Party, represented in the national Diet from 1996 to 1998
- Greens Japan (Midori no Tō, lit. "Green Party"), created in 2012 as successor of Greens Japan (Midori no Mirai, lit. "Green Future"), a green party formed by the merger of the conservative-green Greens Japan (Midori no Table, "Green Table") and the left-wing-green Rainbow and Greens (Niji to Midori) in 2008
- The Spirit of Japan Party (Nippon Sōshintō, lit. "Japan Innovation Party"), formed by prefectural and local politicians in 2010
- Several member organizations of the Japan People's Political Network, a federation of local consumer movements entering politics in the 1970s (includes the Tokyo Seikatsusha Network and the Kanagawa Network Movement)
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