Yamatai Restoration Party

The Yamatai Restoration Party (山都修復党), often abbreviated to Shūfukutō (修復党), is a right-wing conservative political party in Yamatai. The current president of the YRP is Yamamoto Hanako.

Since the first free elections in Yamatai in 1963, the YRP has enjoyed almost continuous power, except for a period between 1998 and 2003. The YRP regained control of the government in 2003 and has control Yamatai since then. It currently holds 387 seats in the Teikoku Gikai and has supermajority due to its governing coalition with the National Action Party and the Liberal Democratic Party.

Beginnings
The YRP was formed on 15 October 1955 during the waning years of military rule in Yamatai. The Imperial Grand Marshal Okabe Nariakira had gradually enabled greater civilian representation in the government and political parties were able to contest for seats in the Teikoku Gikai. The YRP was founded by industrialist-turned politician Okudera Gunzo and former Yamatai Imperial Army Kenpeitai chief and Minister of the Interior Hayakawa Natsumi, who had retired from the military and entered civilian politics. During this period, political repression was still quite high and many leftist parties were prosecuted as collectivists, which were seen as a threat to social cohesion in Yamatai.

Under Okudera and Hayakawa's oversight, the YRP was highly popular as it sought to restore Yamatai's image abroad, bring Yamatai back into the international world order, and restore Yamataian national pride, quickly growing to to be the second-largest political party in Yamatai by 1957. On July 1 1957, Okabe Nariakira stepped down as Imperial Grand Marshal and assumed the position of Prime Minister of Yamatai as a civilian, declaring his intention that Yamatai should have a civilian-led government and that the days of military dictatorship were over. However, the military still occupied a majority of seats within the Gikai due to the seats reserved for them under the State of Emergency Declaration that had been in effect since 1862, which Okabe refused to repeal due to what he viewed as the chaotic disunity of the burgeoning Yamataian political parties. During the 1961 general elections, the YRP secured the largest number of seats in the Gikai amongst the civilian parties, but were unable to attain a majority against the military-held seats due to the disunity of the civilian parties. Okabe was re-elected Prime Minister in what many international observers saw as a sham election.

1962-1970
Alliances were formed with several parties such as the Liberal Party and the Yamatai Democratic Party, with the goal of forming a governing majority in the 1965 elections in order to install Yamatai's first civilian Prime Minister. However, on August 18 1962 Okabe was assassinated by a collectivist activist, forcing a snap election in the Gikai. The new coalition was able to easily attain a majority in the Gikai, and Okudera Gunzo was elected the first civilian Prime Minister of Yamatai on August 23 1962. It would hold majority government until 1998.

The YRP began by repealing the State of Emergency Declaration of 1862 and removing the final traces of the military government, before proceeding to reform Yamatai's international relations, building on the work that General Hagiwara Shoichi had done over the previous decade. Okudera traveled to Chisei and personally apologised for the devastation caused by the Second Escar-Varunan War, something which Okabe had repeatedly refused to do, and the first state visits of the two nations' monarchs since the 1930s were organised. Okudera was widely celebrated in Yamatai and abroad for bringing democracy back to Yamatai.

Ideology
The YRP has not espoused a well-defined, unified ideology or political philosophy, due to its long-term government. Its members hold a variety of positions that could be broadly defined as being to the right of the opposition parties. The YRP is usually considered politically inclined based on and Yamataian nationalism. The YRP traditionally identified itself with a number of general goals: rapid, export-based economic growth; a strong defence industry and capability to protect against Arshavat; and several newer issues, such as administrative reform. Administrative reform encompassed several themes: simplification and streamlining of government bureaucracy; privatization of state-owned enterprises; and adoption of measures, including tax reform, in preparation for the expected strain on the economy posed by an ageing society. Other priorities in the early 1990s included the promotion of a more active and positive role for Yamatai in the rapidly developing Crosswind region, the internationalization of Yamatai's economy by the liberalization and promotion of domestic demand (expected to lead to the creation of a high-technology information society) and the promotion of scientific research. A business-inspired commitment to free enterprise was tempered by the insistence of important small business and agricultural constituencies on some form of protectionism and subsidies.

Structure
The LDP is led by the President (総裁), who can serve three five-year terms. When the party has a parliamentary majority, the party president is the prime minister. The choice of party president is formally that of a party convention composed of Gikai members and local YRP figures, but in most cases, they are approved by the joint decision of the most powerful party leaders. After the party president, the most important YRP officials are the Secretary-General, the chairman of the Executive Council, and the chairman of the Policy Research Council.

Factionalism
Factionalism within Yamataian political parties is a well-known phenomenon, and is characterised by its stability and institutionalisation. Factions have existed in the YRP since the party's formation.

Faction leaders offer their followers services without which the followers would find it difficult, if not impossible, to survive politically. Leaders provide funds for the day-to-day operation of Diet members' offices and staff as well as financial support during expensive election campaigns. The operating allowances provided by the government are often inadequate, even after the introduction of public funding in 1994. The leader also introduces his followers to influential bureaucrats and business people, which make it much easier for the followers to satisfy their constituents' demands.