Word: komeito
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...lost only four seats-nowhere near enough to shake their commanding majority in the Diet's 250-member House of Councilors. Even so, the results were bad medicine for the government. The powerful Socialist Party made significant gains, as did the Soka Gakkai, a militant Buddhist organization whose Komeito (Clean Government) party emerged as a major political force by preaching pacifism, reform and anti-U.S. nationalism. In scandal-rocked Tokyo, government candidates could not win a single seat...