A liberal-minded political party founded by ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has been sweeping its way through Japan’s Twitter community, amassing more than 100,000 followers in just a few days since its official launch on Monday.
The number of followers attracted by Edano’s nascent party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (@CDP2017)), totaled 107,000 and counting as of Wednesday evening. It was fast approaching that of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (@jimin_koho), which stood at 112,000 as of Wednesday evening. The ruling party joined Twitter in July 2009.
By comparison, coalition partner Komeito (@komei_koho) had 71,000 followers, the Japanese Communist Party (@jcp_cc) 32,000 followers and the Democratic Party (@MinshintoNews) 24,000 followers.