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instead. However, his decision to resign was opposed by his local supporters, and so he could not rely on a strong power base to vote for him in
Yokohama. As a result, he decided to run from Tokyo 1st district instead, However, there were still issues as now that he was in an area where he lacked a
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Atsukata set out to make the JSP more open by introducing a system in which the party leader can be selected by all party members. He also tried to increase the appeal of the JSP by expanding party membership and setting up closer coordination with citizen interests groups. He also reformed some
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Socialist Party's chairman. In the 1978 vote by the Diet to appoint the prime minister, the JSP voted for Vice Chairman Shōichi Shimodaira, due to the fact that Atsukata was a non-Diet member. Atsukata resigned from his position as Mayor of Yokohama and ran for the House of
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model, but was largely unsuccessful in boosting the party's standing; the JSP had only a 13.2% approval rating in
December 1977. The JSP also moved a bit towards the
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there. He graduated from there, and afterwards he took the exams for the "higher civil service examinations," becoming a lawyer as a result. In the immediate
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