The Japan Socialist Party, the largest opposition party at the time, refused to participate in the commission, which it saw as a thinly disguised attempt to endorse revision. In the end ...

the Liberal Party and the Japan Democratic Party, just as leftwing groups formed the Socialist Party. They led Japan after the war, when conservatives in the U.S.-occupied country were looking to ...

The LDP formed a coalition government with its longtime rival Japan Socialist Party, the predecessor of the Social Democratic Party, and New Party Sakigake by installing JSP leader Tomiichi ...