Nippon Ishin no Kai, founded as Initiatives from Osaka, is a conservative, neoliberal, and right-wing populist political party in Japan that was formed in November 2015 from a split in the old Japan Innovation Party. The party advocates decentralization, federalism, free education, limited government, and neoliberal parties, while winning conservative support for its opposition to defense spending limits. The party became the third-largest opposition party in the National Diet after the 2016 House of Councillors election and became a major political force in Kansai after the 2021 general election; the party also made significant gains at the 2023 local elections.
The party is mostly supported by nationalist and right-wing voters supporting revisionist history, anti-establishment voters seeking an alternative to the established political order; Osaka and Kansai region voters who supported greater local autonomy and decentralizaiton; small business owners who supported the party's pro-entrepreneurial policies; and conservative and populist voters who supported the party's crime prevention, immigration control, and social cohesion policies. A 2016 poll showed that 40% of party supporters identified as liberal, while 34.7% identified as centrists, 14.8% as moderate conservatives, and 7.9% as conservatives; the party was also seen as a centrist party by its supporters even in spite of its conservative reputation.