Kōmeitō (1962–1998)

The Kōmeitō (Japanese: 公明党), also known as Kōmei Seiji Renmei, the Kōmei Party, and Clean Government Party (CGP), was a political party in Japan, initiated by Daisaku Ikeda, and described by various authors as the "political arm" of Soka Gakkai. Kōmeitō was considered a centrist, as well as centre-left, political party of the progressive camp until the 1990s. Its successor party Komeito had become politically closer to the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and became a centre-to-centre-right conservative party. This ended in 2026 when Komeito merged with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan to become the Centrist Reform Alliance.