Rainbow and Greens

Rainbow and Greens (虹と緑, Niji to Midori) was a Green political organization in Japan from 1998–2008. It was a nationwide network of prefectural assembly members, usually running on local platforms variously named as "living citizen network", "living club", "living cooperative" or the Rainbow and Greens 500-Member List Movement . It is a member of the Asia-Pacific Green Network. The national spokespersons for the party were Kiyoshi Matsuya , former Shizuoka Prefecture assembly member and the city councillor Mutsuko Katsura in Ibaraki, Osaka.

The symbol of the "rainbow" represents diversity, solidarity and the cooperation which respect personal differences; the colour "green" signifies conversion to an economy which coexists with natural environment.