Japanese Nationalist Party (Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum)

The Nationalist Party of Japan, also known as Myōmi Kokumintō (MKT) (みょ う み こくみんとう; 明湄國民黨) is the founding and ruling political party of the Republic of Japan. Although nominally it exists alongside the National Front, a coalition of governing political parties, in practice, the MKT is the only ruling party in Japan, maintaining a unitary government and centralizing the state, military, and media. The current First Secretary of the MKT is Shii Kazuo.

Ideology and Political Role
main article: Social Nationalism

The Party role in Japan described by Yoshida as “the guiding power of the Republic to protect the people's revolutionary cause until Japan able to enter the last phase of the Revolution”. Yoshida believed the state is more independent body to guarantee the law and the public order which will be fully functioned in the final phase of the Revolution.

The Nationalist Party does not pursuing the revolutionary goal in the economy field. Although Yoshida formulated the Great Economic Plan that modeled after Soviet's Five-Year Plan, in 1950s, several Party moderates, however, accepted West German-inspired social market system can be developed well in Japan. Yoshida's socialistic interpretation of Nationalism still become the Party official ideology today.

Organization
Although MKT is not a Marxist-Leninist party, the party's organizational structure was modeled after the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The governing body of the MKT was the Party Congress which was held at least once every four years. Party Congresses would elect a Central Committee which, in turn, would elect a General Political Office or GPO and a General Military Office or GMO. The GPO then elected the Secretariat. Before 1949, the Party President was the most powerful position in the party and only Nagayama Yoshida was the only person who ever held this position. Those post later abolished and many of powers transferred both to the GPO and GMO on 1949 in favor of collective leadership.

The party main decision-making bodies is the General Political Office of the Nationalist Party of Japan (明湄國民黨の政治局 Myōmi Kokumintō no Seiji-kyoku), more known as the GPO (政治局 Seiji-kyoku) consisted by minimum 15 peoples and maximum 25 peoples. The GPO formulated and regulated the Party policies which later ratified by the Central Committee and implemented by the Secretariat. In the political convention developed in Japan since 1991, the Chief of GPO is also the de-facto Party leader.

The Central Secretariat of the Nationalist Party of Japan (明湄國民黨の中央事務局 Myōmi Kokumintō no Chūō Jimukyoku), usually referred as the Secretariat (事務局 Jimukyoku) served as the Party national-level administration office consisted by a First Secretary as the head of Secretariat, a Second Secretary as the deputy and another seven Party Secretaries. The body responsible for daily operations of the Party mechanisms.

Since 1948, the party established the military counterpart of the Politburo, the General Military Office of the Nationalist Party of Japan (明湄國民黨の軍事局 Myōmi Kokumintō no Gunji-kyoku), or more known as the GMO (軍事局 Gunji-kyoku). The power of the GMO, however, still beyond its political counterpart. The GMO provides the power to oversee the Japanese Republican Army. This body also serves as de-facto advisory body for matter of Minister of Defense appointment by the Prime Minister.

At the lower levels of organizational hierarchy, the Party was managed by the local committees which headed by the local Party Chief which elected by the local Party Congress every four years. The lowest level of the party organization is the Party local cells which created at least by five cadres in every neighborhood levels as the nucleus organization of the party. This local cells managing and overseeing the runs of local business, schools, communal security and other community activites at the neighborhood levels.