Is Komeito left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Komeito scores 00 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +02. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Komeito authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Komeito scores −03. Has been the junior coalition partner almost continuously since 1999 and has restrained security legislation from inside.

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Komeito

1964– · Japan · Religious Centrist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

00ECbalanced

+02CUtraditional

−03AUpluralist

+03SCcentral

+01IDascriptive

−08CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

A party founded by a lay Buddhist organisation, committed to welfare, pacifism and coalition moderation.

Economic model

Child allowances, welfare expansion, consumption tax relief for low incomes.

Organisation of powers

Has been the junior coalition partner almost continuously since 1999 and has restrained security legislation from inside.

Reading note

One of the few explicitly religious parties in the dataset coded pacifist and centrist rather than traditionalist.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored 00

Coded at zero: child allowances and welfare expansion with fiscal moderation.

Documented act or statuteSecured the child allowance and consumption tax relief for low incomes in coalition.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +02

Coded +2: a lay Buddhist base with pacifist commitments.

Documented act or statuteFounded by the Soka Gakkai lay organisation in 1964.

AU · Organisation of power · scored −03

Coded −3: coalition moderation as its stated function.

Documented act or statuteConstrained the 2015 security legislation from inside the governing coalition.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +03

Coded +3: national government with a strong local organisational base.

ScholarshipThe party's strength rests on dense local branch organisation.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +01

Coded +1: a religious organisational base with a civic membership position.

Programme textThe party has supported expanded rights for foreign residents.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −08

Coded −8: continuous coalition participation since 1999.

Documented act or statuteHas been the junior partner in government for almost all of the last twenty-five years.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Japan

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Komeito. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/komeito/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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