Tojima People's Party

The Tojima People's Party (TPP, Japanese: 東島人民党, Hepburn: Tōjima Jinmin-tō) was a localist and conservative political party in Tojima, Enderron. It mainly adhered to an ideology of Tojiman localism and defined itself as autonomist, regarding Tojima's status in the Enderronian federation. It was also broadly socially conservative and economically liberal.

The TPP was founded by Japanese Enderronian dissidents of the United Party who did approve of the party's policies regarding Tojima, in particular its cultural assimilationist stance. Rather than join the centre-left Social Democratic Party, the group decided to form a conservative pro-Tojima party. The party first contested the 1950 prefectural election, electing inaugural leader Ryota Kawakami to the Tojima Prefectural Assembly.

From 1958 to 1994 the TPP was regarded as the main right-of-centre party in Tojiman politics, and the main opponent to the centre-left and federalist Social Democrats. It controlled the Prefectural Assembly from 1966 to 1970 as a majority government under Nobuyuki Nakahara, and again from 1990 to 1994 as a coalition government under Hideaki Takanaka. For most of the intervening period, it formed the Official Opposition in the legislature. The party had greater electoral success in gubernatorial elections, winning five consecutive elections and controlling the governor's office continuously from 1958 to 1978.

Although the party was officially multiracial and branded itself as a big tent autonomist and localist party for conservative Tojimans, most of its support throughout its history came from middle class Japanese Enderronians, and White Tojimans by and large remained with the United Party or the Social Democrats. From the late 1970s onwards, the party became less avowedly localist and shifted towards a catch-all conservative platform, to attract voters away from the United Party.

The TPP merged with the Liberal Democrats prior to the 1994 prefectural election. A number of right-wing dissidents opposed the merger and later formed the Tojima Citizens Association, which became Tojima First. The Liberal Democrats themselves later merged into the modern Liberal Party of Tojima in 2000. Autonomist Japanese Enderronians have since moved back to Tojima First, which became a centrist party in the mid-2000s, while the Liberals have become more ardently anti-autonomist.