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<blockquote data-quote="El Correcto" data-source="post: 4905455" data-attributes="member: 60631">The Japan Socialist Party had been an unhappy marriage between far left socialists, centrist socialists, and right socialists, who had been forced together in order to oppose the consolidation of conservative parties into the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955. Asanuma had been a charismatic figure who had been able to hold many of these mutually antagonistic factions together through the force of his personality.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> Under Asanuma&#039;s leadership, the party had won an increasing amount of seats in the Diet in every election over the latter half of the 1950s and seemed to be gathering momentum.Asanuma&#039;s untimely death deprived the party of his adroit leadership, and thrust <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabur%C5%8D_Eda" target="_blank">Saburō Eda</a> into the leadership role instead.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> A centrist, Eda rapidly took the party in a more centrist direction, far faster than the left socialists were ready to accept.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8" target="_blank">[8]</a> This led to growing infighting within the party, and drastically damaged its ability to present a cohesive message to the public. Over the rest of the 1960s and going forward, the number of seats the Socialists held in the Diet continued to decline until the party&#039;s extinction in 1996.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[9]</a>[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejirō_Asanuma[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Correcto, post: 4905455, member: 60631"] The Japan Socialist Party had been an unhappy marriage between far left socialists, centrist socialists, and right socialists, who had been forced together in order to oppose the consolidation of conservative parties into the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955. Asanuma had been a charismatic figure who had been able to hold many of these mutually antagonistic factions together through the force of his personality.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8'][8][/URL] Under Asanuma's leadership, the party had won an increasing amount of seats in the Diet in every election over the latter half of the 1950s and seemed to be gathering momentum. Asanuma's untimely death deprived the party of his adroit leadership, and thrust [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabur%C5%8D_Eda']Saburō Eda[/URL] into the leadership role instead.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8'][8][/URL] A centrist, Eda rapidly took the party in a more centrist direction, far faster than the left socialists were ready to accept.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-Kapur_127-8'][8][/URL] This led to growing infighting within the party, and drastically damaged its ability to present a cohesive message to the public. Over the rest of the 1960s and going forward, the number of seats the Socialists held in the Diet continued to decline until the party's extinction in 1996.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma#cite_note-9'][9][/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inejirō_Asanuma[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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