Trade Unions and popular support from a war-weary electorate that largely agreed with the party's principle of unarmed neutrality. The two socialist parties reunited that year to form a united front against the emerging right-wing conservative Liberal Democratic Party, but crippling defeats in 1957 and 1958 reignited the left-right tension within the Socialist Party. In 1960, right-wing leaders such as Suehiro Nishio left the party and formed the Democratic Socialist Party. Taking responsibility for the party's collapse, Suzuki resigned as chairman. During the 1960s, Suzuki gradually pressed the Socialist Party to the left, but it continued to languish as Japan's economic recovery sped up. He retired from politics in 1967 and died of liver cirrhosis in 1970. References 20th-century journalists 1893 births 1970 deaths People from Gamagōri Politicians from Aichi Prefecture Waseda University alumni Japanese journalists Japanese essayists Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Members of the House of Representatives (Empire of Japan) Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Writers from Aichi Prefecture 20th-century essayists Japanese war correspondents Deaths from cirrhosis