On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released one document from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. This document is a memorandum of a meeting that Gordan Gray, Special Assistant to the President, had with the President informing him of US efforts to strengthen the leadership of the right-wing Japanese Socialist Party. The ISCAP decided to declassify this originally Confidential document in its entirety
In 1940, shortly before officially entering the war, all of Japan’s traditional political parties dissolved. It wasn’t until after their defeat in 1945 that political parties started forming once again, under Allied occupation. In 1951, the Japanese Socialist Party (JSP) split before reuniting in 1955 to create a stronger opposition against the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This reunification lasted until 1959 when the party split again into the left-wing JSP and the right-wing Democratic Socialist Party. The Democratic Socialist Party broke away from the JSP because of the alleged Marxist ideologies and defining itself as the “class” party. Those on the Right Socialist Party and the right-wing Democratic Socialist Party ideology revolved around social democracy and were generally in center to center left on the political scale. The left ideology was centered around Marxism, communism, and nonviolent revolutionary socialism.