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Kibō no Tō, also called the Party of Hope, was a right-wing populist political party in Japan that was founded by Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike ahead of the 2017 general election.

Koike, who led the Tomin First no Kai regional party to win the 2017 Tokyo prefectural elections in a landslide, founded the Kibō no Tō as a centrist liberal alternative to the moribund DPJ, causing it to skyrocket in popularity. Koike supported economic liberalism, administrative and budgetary reform, the advancement of the status of women in the working world, environmentalism, nationalism, hawkish foriegn and security policies, and the advancement of Japanese pop culture (such as anime). Kibō no Tō had nearly identical views to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, from which it split, but Kibō no Tō supported environmentalism (such as the anti-nuclear movement), while the LDP supported nuclear energy. Koike the support of DPJ president Seiji Maehara, who, on 28 September 2017, cancelled the DPJ's plans to contest the 2017 election and instead decided to merge the party's existing representatives into Kibō no Tō. However, Koike had the DPJ candidates pass ideological tests, only accepting conservatives into her party. On 2 October 2017, DPJ deputy president Yukio Edano formed the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan for liberals and left-leaning members of the DPJ. This led to the Kibō no Tō establishing close ties with far-right organizations like Ganbare Nippon and other uyoku dantai organizations.

In the 2017 election, Kibō no Tō underperformed expectations, with the CDP becoming the main opposition party, forcing Maehara to resign as party president. In May 2018, Kibō no Tō and the remaining DPJ merged to form the Democratic Party for the People. However, far-right members of Kibō led by Shigefumi Matsuzawa stated that they intended to form a separate Kibō no Tō party, which was formed on 7 May 2018, the same day as the DPFP merger. The party lost its legal status as a political party on 5 June 2018, and, by October 2021, only Nariaki Nakayama remained in the Diet. After he chose not to seek re-election, the party dissolved.

During its existence, the party positioned itself as a reformist force, promising to challenge vested interests, reduce bureaucracy, and bring fresh ideas to Japanese politics; it thus appealed to anti-establishment voters. Governor Yuriko Koike's personal appeal and track record as a reform-minded politician garnered support from a wide range fo voters. The party also attracted moderate conservative voters dissatisfied with the direction of the LDP under Shinzo Abe (supporting a more pragmatic and centrist alternative that addressed social and economic issues while maintaining a focus on national security and traditional values), urban and suburban voters, and reform-minded voters. The party faced changes in maintaining its support base, and its poor performance in the 2017 general election led to the party facing intenral divisions and a decline in support.

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