The New Socialist Party of Japan (新社会党, Shin Shakai-tō) is a left-wing political party in Japan founded on 3 March 1996 by a group of left-wingers who left the Social Democratic Party. The party has some similarities to the Japanese Communist Party, advocating democratic socialism, direct democracy, non-interventionism and pacifism. It says that people can have "freedom of thought and religious beliefs". A peaceful democratic revolution, peace and human rights constitute what the party desires to be part of the Constitution of Japan. Another viewpoint that the party shares with the Japanese Communist Party, although slightly different, is the belief Japan should completely stop using its nuclear power so that Japan can become a nation with "unarmed neutrality".