Member of the House of Representatives for Kumamoto 1st District[a]
In office 18 July 1993 – 7 May 1998
Preceded by
Shōichi Tanaka
Succeeded by
Eiichi Iwashita
Personal details
Born
(1938-01-14) 14 January 1938 (age 86) Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Political party
Democratic Party (1998–2016)
Other political affiliations
LDP (until 1992) JNP (1992–1994) NFP (1994–1997) From Five (1997–1998) GGP (1998)
Spouse
Kayoko Ueda
(m. 1971)
Children
3 (including Morimitsu)
Alma mater
Sophia University
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Morihiro Hosokawa (細川 護煕, Hosokawa Morihiro, born 14 January 1938) is a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994, leading a coalition government which was the first non-Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government of Japan since 1955. After successfully implementing various election and trade reforms, he stepped down from the role of Prime Minister in early 1994.[1] He later ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Governor of Tokyo in the February 2014 gubernatorial election as an independent supported by the Democratic Party of Japan.[2] He has been, since 2005, the head of the Kumamoto-Hosokawa clan, one of the former noble families of Japan.
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tally was 2,112,979 votes (42.86%), with his two closest competitors MorihiroHosokawa and Kenji Utsunomiya failing to break the 20% mark. Total turnout...
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influence even until the 20th century (such as Fumimaro Konoe and MorihiroHosokawa, who became the Prime Ministers). As such, they had a certain political...
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government for 38 years. In 1993, the LDP was ousted by a coalition led by MorihiroHosokawa. However, the coalition collapsed as parties had gathered only to...
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opposition parties against the LDP, similar to what former Prime Minister MorihiroHosokawa accomplished in successfully forming a coalition in the aftermath...
bring down the ruling LDP, and then the reformist Prime Minister MorihiroHosokawa. Terry McCarthy (17 January 1993). "Japan's Crime Incorporated: The...
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