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{{Infobox political party
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| president = [[Ichirō Ozawa]]
| secretary_general = [[Shōzō Azuma]]▼
| leader1_title = Councilors leader▼
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| leader2_title = Representatives leader▼
▲|secretary_general = [[Shōzō Azuma]]
| leader2_name = [[Sadatoshi Kumagai]]▼
| founder = Ichirō Ozawa
▲|leader1_title = Councilors leader
| foundation = {{start date|2012|7|11|df=y}}▼
| dissolution = {{end date|2012|12|16|df=y}}▼
▲|leader2_title = Representatives leader
| split = [[Democratic Party of Japan]]
▲|leader2_name = [[Sadatoshi Kumagai]]
| merged = [[Tomorrow Party of Japan]]
▲|foundation = {{start date|2012|7|11|df=y}}
| ideology = [[Populism]]<ref name="Ikeda">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/column/ikeda/2012/07/post-525.php |title=橋下市長はなぜ野田首相をほめたのか |last=Ikeda |first=Nobuo |author-link=Nobuo Ikeda |date=July 13, 2012 |website=newsweekjapan.jp |publisher=[[Newsweek]] |language=ja |access-date=May 31, 2020 }}</ref>
▲|dissolution = {{end date|2012|12|16|df=y}}
| position = [[Centrism|Centre]]{{cn|date=November 2023}}▼
| website = http://www.seikatsu1.jp▼
| country = Japan▼
| colorcode = {{party color|People's Life Party}}
▲|position = [[Centrism|Centre]]
▲|website = http://www.seikatsu1.jp
▲|country = Japan
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{{Nihongo|'''People's Life First'''|国民の生活が第一|''Kokumin no Seikatsu ga
==Foundation==
The party was founded by [[Ichiro Ozawa]] and 48 other diet members who were in the [[Democratic Party of Japan]] (DPJ) after the DPJ government of [[Yoshihiko Noda]] voted to increase the consumption tax from 5% to 10%. The inaugural meeting was held at the parliamentary museum on 11 July 2012.<ref name="yomiuri20120712">{{cite web |url= http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120711004574.htm|archive-url= https://archive.today/20120714010923/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120711004574.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 14 July 2012|title= Ozawa, DPJ rebels create new party|date= 12 July 2012|work= Daily Yomiuri Online|publisher= The Yomiuri Shimbun|location= Japan
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===Plans for alliances===▼
The party opposed the increase in the consumption tax<ref name="abc20120711">{{cite web |url= http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/breakaway-leader-forms-party-rival-japanese-pm-16753142#.T__FJ2Nn785|title= Breakaway Leader Forms Party to Rival Japanese PM|first= Mari|last= Yamaguchi |date= 11 July 2012|work= |publisher= ABC News|location= Tokyo|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 13 July 2012}}</ref> and plans to reduce nuclear energy to zero.<ref name="yomiuri20120712"/>▼
Ozawa told his aides: "It'll be all right if we do it like the [[Olive Tree Coalition]]." Possible coalition partners would be the [[Osaka Restoration Association]] of Osaka mayor [[Toru Hashimoto]], [[New Party Daichi – True Democrats]], the Genzei Nippon party of [[Takashi Kawamura (politician)|Takashi Kawamura]], the Aichi is Top of Japan party of [[Hideaki Ōmura]] and a possible party to be founded by Tokyo governor [[Shintaro Ishihara]].<ref name="yomiuri20120702">{{cite web |url= http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120701002319.htm|archive-url= https://archive.today/20130218182630/http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120701002319.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 18 February 2013|title= Ozawa has hard road ahead / Plan for 'Olive Tree' coalition may be unworkable, observers say|date= 2 July 2012|work= Daily Yomiuri Online|publisher= The Yomiuri Shimbun|location= Japan
Nevertheless, many{{who|date=December 2012}} saw the party's, especially Ozawa's, opposition to the increase in consumption tax and plans to maintain nuclear energy usage as simply being politically expedient positions.{{fact|date=December 2012}}▼
On 9 July 2012, Governor [[Takuya Tasso]] of [[Iwate Prefecture]], historical home to the Ozawa family and the [[Iwate 4th district|district]] that Ozawa represents, announced that he would cut ties with the DPJ and join the new party.<ref name="jt20120710">{{cite web|url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120710a6.html#.T__GZWNn785|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120713064721/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120710a6.html#.T__GZWNn785|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 July 2012|title= Iwate governor to part with DPJ and join Ozawa's planned party|date= 10 July 2012|work= The Japan Times|publisher= The Japan Times Limited|location= Japan
▲==Plans for alliances==
▲Ozawa told his aides: "It'll be all right if we do it like the [[Olive Tree Coalition]]." Possible coalition partners would be the [[Osaka Restoration Association]] of Osaka mayor [[Toru Hashimoto]], [[New Party Daichi – True Democrats]], the Genzei Nippon party of [[Takashi Kawamura (politician)|Takashi Kawamura]], the Aichi is Top of Japan party of [[Hideaki Ōmura]] and a possible party to be founded by Tokyo governor [[Shintaro Ishihara]].<ref name="yomiuri20120702">{{cite web |url= http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120701002319.htm|title= Ozawa has hard road ahead / Plan for 'Olive Tree' coalition may be unworkable, observers say|date= 2 July 2012|work= Daily Yomiuri Online|publisher= The Yomiuri Shimbun|location= Japan|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 13 July 2012}}</ref> He may also seek an alliance with the [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|Social Democratic Party]].<ref name="jt20120712">{{cite news|url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120712a1.html#.T__GaGNn785|title= Ozawa creates new party to counter Noda|first= Masami|last= Ito|date= 12 July 2012|newspaper= The Japan Times|issn= 0289-1956|publisher= The Japan Times Limited|location= Japan|page= 1}}</ref>
===Motions against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda===▼
▲On 9 July 2012, Governor [[Takuya Tasso]] of [[Iwate Prefecture]], historical home to the Ozawa family and the [[Iwate 4th district|district]] that Ozawa represents, announced that he would cut ties with the DPJ and join the new party.<ref name="jt20120710">{{cite web|url= http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120710a6.html#.T__GZWNn785|title= Iwate governor to part with DPJ and join Ozawa's planned party|date= 10 July 2012|work= The Japan Times|publisher= The Japan Times Limited|location= Japan|archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= 13 July 2012}}</ref>
On 3 August 2012, the People's Life First in concert with six other minor opposition parties (The [[Kizuna Party]], [[Japanese Communist Party]], [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|Social Democratic Party]], [[Your Party]], [[New Party Nippon]] (which has no lower-house lawmaker) and the [[New Renaissance Party]]) agreed to submit a [[Motion of no confidence|no confidence motion]] against Prime Minister [[Yoshihiko Noda]] in an effort to block the passage of the bill raising Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10%. In the Japanese diet the support of 51 lawmakers is required to submit a
On 29 August 2012, the House of Councillors passed a censure motion against Noda based on the one previously submitted by the seven opposition parties. The LDP and New Komeito had also been preparing their own censure motion but in the end the LDP, which had supported Noda's consumption tax increase, supported the censure motion of the other seven parties, while New Komeito abstained.<ref>
▲==Motions against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda==
▲On 3 August 2012, the People's Life First in concert with six other minor opposition parties (The [[Kizuna Party]], [[Japanese Communist Party]], [[Social Democratic Party (Japan)|Social Democratic Party]], [[Your Party]], [[New Party Nippon]] (which has no lower-house lawmaker) and the [[New Renaissance Party]]) agreed to submit a [[Motion of no confidence|no confidence motion]] against Prime Minister [[Yoshihiko Noda]] in an effort to block the passage of the bill raising Japan's consumption tax from 5% to 10%. In the Japanese diet the support of 51 lawmakers is required to submit a co-confidence motion to the lower house.<ref> The Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120803005478.htm Parties band together against Noda August 4 2012] Retrieved on August 13 2012 </ref> The motion was submitted to the [[House of Representatives (Japan)|House of Representatives]] on 7 August 2012, along with a censure motion against Noda in the [[House of Councillors]]. The main opposition [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]] was also considering its own no-confidence motion and censure motions if Noda did not agree to call a general election.<ref> The Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120807005529.htm 6 parties hit Noda with no-confidence motion August 8 2012] Retrieved on August 13 2012</ref> The no-confidence motion was voted down 246 to 86, with the DPJ voting against and the LDP and its partner New Komeito deciding to be absent from the vote after Noda agreed to hold elections "soon".<ref> The Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120809005673.htm Reform bills set to pass Diet today / No-confidence motion easily voted down August 10 2012] Retrieved on August 13 2012 </ref>
===Addition of former Kizuna Party members===
▲On 29 August 2012, the House of Councillors passed a censure motion against Noda based on the one previously submitted by the seven opposition parties. The LDP and New Komeito had also been preparing their own censure motion but in the end the LDP, which had supported Noda's consumption tax increase, supported the censure motion of the other seven parties, while New Komeito abstained.<ref> The Daily Yomiuri [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120829004873.htm Upper house OK's censure against Noda August 30, 2012] Retrieved on September 1, 2012 </ref> While the censure motion was non-binding, the opposition parties planned to boycott the remaining sitting days before the diet session finished on September 8, preventing further legislation from being passed.<ref> The Japan Times [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120830a3.html Censure motion against Noda OK'd August 30, 2012] Retrieved on September 1, 2012</ref>
On November 15, 2012, after Noda called an early election for December 16, 2012, the [[Kizuna Party]], which like People's Life First had been founded by DPJ defectors, decided to dissolve
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Just prior to the [[2012 Japanese general election
▲On November 15, 2012, after Noda called an early election for December 16, 2012, the [[Kizuna Party]], which like People's Life First had been founded by DPJ defectors, decided to dissolve and and merge with People's Life First. However, party leader [[Akira Uchiyama]] decided not to do so, instead planning to cooperate with former [[People's New Party]] leader [[Shizuka Kamei]] to form a third force in national politics. This change meant that the amount of lawmakers in the party would increase to 57, with 45 in the lower house and 12 members in the upper house.<ref> [[Jiji Press]] [http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2012111501080 Kizuna Party to Merge into People's Life First November 15, 2012] </ref>
==Goals==
▲The party opposed the increase in the consumption tax<ref name="abc20120711">{{cite web |url=
▲Just prior to the [[Japanese general election, 2012|December 16 2012 General Election]], the Diet members of the party joined the newly established [[Tomorrow Party of Japan]], and the party was dissolved. The Tomorrow Party went into the election with 12 members in the upper house and 61 in the lower house, but performed poorly, with only nine members being re-elected.
▲Nevertheless, many{{who|date=December 2012}} saw the party's, especially Ozawa's, opposition to the increase in consumption tax and plans to maintain nuclear energy usage as simply being politically expedient positions.{{
==Presidents of People's Life First==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|No.
!rowspan=2|Name
!colspan=2|Term of office
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!Took office
!Left office
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|bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="5"|'''Split from: [[Democratic Party of Japan|Democratic Party (1998)]]'''
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|[[Ichirō Ozawa]]
|11 July 2012
|16 December 2012
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|bgcolor="lightblue" colspan="5"|'''Successor party: [[Tomorrow Party of Japan|Tomorrow Party]]'''
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