No. 1,386 in Japanese
共産党
Communist Party.
In a sentence
日本共産党は日本の政党の一つです。
The Japanese Communist Party is one of the political parties in Japan.
In this sentence, 共産党 refers to the political organization named 日本共産党 (the Japanese Communist Party), so it is used as a proper noun.
彼は大学で共産党の歴史について研究しています。
He is studying the history of the Communist Party at university.
Here, 共産党 represents the general concept of the Communist Party as a historical and political entity.
共産党の思想は社会主義に基づいていることが多いです。
The ideology of the communist party often is based on socialism.
In this case, 共産党 is used to reference the ideology and principles associated with communist parties in general.
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