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Kizuna Party (新党きづな Shintō Kizuna New Party Kizuna) is a center-left Japanese political party in Japan created by nine lawmakers of the House of Representatives who resigned from the Democratic Party of Japan led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on December 30 2011 as protest to the latter’s decision to raise to country’s consumption tax rate from 5% to 10% in two years.The new party was formed on January 4 2012 and led by Akira Uchiyama of Chiba Prefecture.The party opposes both the proposed consumption tax and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement.