Current Policies
- Defends Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan.
- Advocate a significant increase in the scope of social welfare, such as healthcare, pensions, social security and disability care.
- Opposition to market-driven neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism.
- Complete disarmament of Japan in accordance with pacifist principles. The Japanese Self-Defense Force will be replaced with a force dedicated to disaster relief and foreign aid.
- Cancellation of the US-Japan military alliance, dismantling of US bases in Japan and replacing it with a Treaty of Friendship.
- Opposition to Japan's involvement in supporting the US in the War against terror through refueling of US warships in the Indian Ocean.
- Introduction of an environment (carbon) tax.
- Significant increase in the scope of wildlife protection legislation, increasing the number of protected species and setting up of protection zones
- Transition from a mass-production / mass-consumption society to a sustainable society in coexistence with nature.
- Clampdown on harmful chemicals, e.g., restriction on use of agricultural chemicals, ban on asbestos, tackling dioxin and soil pollutants.
- Increased investment in public transport, encouraging a switch from road to rail, and from petrol powered buses to hybrids, electric vehicles and Light rail transit.
- Opposition to nuclear power, and proposes a gradual switch to wind energy as the nation's base energy source.
- Abolition of the death penalty.
- Opposition to privatisation of water.
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