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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Earthshaking event! A coalition government〉

It was a completion of encircling net on Ozawa.

〈They would do everything for returning to the ruling party〉

When forming the Murayama Cabinet, the Liberal Democratic Party accepted the agreement on policy the one done by the Socialist Party and Shinto Sakigake as it was.

While the Liberal Democratic Party occupied majority among the three political parties overwhelmingly, it didn`t tried to get a leadership on agreement of their policy.

Shusei Tanaka who used to lead the agreement on the policy...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈They would do everything for returning to the ruling party〉

Shusei Tanaka who used to lead the agreement on policy belonged to Shinto Sakigake then said like the next.

When the Murayama Cabinet was formed, the Liberal Democratic Party looked modestly and obedient so much that I found it strange. I admired to see they could endure anything so as to return to the political power.

After saying ironically like that he criticized the Liberal Democratic Party like the next.

I was forced to surprised at their thoughtless action of accepting on...

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〈They would do everything for returning to the ruling party〉

I was forced to surprised at their thoughtless action of accepting a document on agreement by the Socialist Party and Shinto Sakigake without investigating it minutely, and I thought it`s no an exaggeration that I found an actual situation on the Liberal Democratic Party there.

He argued down that the Liberal Democratic Party wasn`t a political party which maintained and carried out liberal democracy but being in the ruling party, being the political power, they found their value on them.

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〈They would do everything for returning to the ruling party〉

They would overlook almost all of everything so as to return to the the ruling party.

While the Prime Minister on the Murayama Cabinet was from the Socialist Party, as to the number of its Cabinet minister, thirteen from the Liberal Democratic Party, five from the Socialist Party, two from the Shinto Sakigake, so the Cabinet actually belonged to the Liberal Democratic Party.

〈A new political party on anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

Ozawa who belonged to the...

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〈A new political party on anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

Ozawa who belonged to the opposition party gathered influence on anti Liberal Democratic Party supporting the Hata Cabinet, and made a start Shin shin To. Its leader was Toshiki Kaifu who used to be the Prime Minister and left from the Liberal Democratic Party then and the Chief Secretary was Ichiro Ozawa.

A general meeting for its forming party was held at Yokohama. Its participants spread a giant flag on which Shinshinto was painted in the meeting place, and...

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〈A political party of Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

...and then a music of a song for joy composed by Beethoven was played on the meeting place, so it was a showy event. Cameramen on the press were guided to a place where they could look around the whole meeting place so as to take a photograph on the situation beforehand. It was a direction being aware of the time of TV.

A single-seat constituencies and proportional representation 小選挙区比例代表並立制 would be adopted in the next election on the House of...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

A system of a single-seat constituencies and proportional representation would be adopted in the next electtion on the House of Representation because of a reformation on system of election.

The small electoral district system is advantageous for a big political party, so each of political parties joined and made be a head on clash between their unified candidate and the one from the Liberal Democratic Party and tried to win the election. Opposing party thought so.

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〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

It was better than fighting among themselves by each of candidates from small and medium political parties.

Moreover Komeito who was good at an election, so members of its religious group supported them. It appealed to them. An election on the House of Council was done July in 1995, and its outcome appeared at once, for Shinshinto made a great advance in the election, and secured forty seats in the House of Council then.

An election on the leader of Shinshinto was...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

An election on the leader of Shinshinto was done December in 1995, and its candidates was Ozawa and Hata, then Ozawa won, and from then there was a crack on the relation between Ozawa and Hata.

Besides Diet members who thought managing the political party by Ozawa was forcible increased. A confrontation was repeated between Ozawa and Hata in the time of the Liberal Democratic Party or Hosokawa coalition government, and it was done again in Shinshinto.

A group led by...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

A group led by Hata left from Shinshinto at last and formed a new political party December in 1996. Ozawa and Hata used to call themselves by nickname each other, so it seemed to be intimate once, but they broke off the relationship finally.

Its leader on selection for Shinshinto was done December in 1997, and Ozawa was elected again then, but he made Shinshinto disband right away.

Instead of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinshinto aimed at the one which was in...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

Instead of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinshinto aimed at being a political party which was in charge of the political power disappeared all too soon.

Though it has been unclear why Ozawa disbanded Shinshinto, it seemed it was influenced by increasing Diet members thought who wanted to take into action on politics being away from Shinshinto. Or a religious group belonged to Komeito supported Shinshinto, but its members who started to think they wanted struggle in...

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〈Shinshinto which was anti Liberal Democratic Party was formed and was disbanded〉

...its members who thought they wanted to struggle a election as not the member of Shinshinto but as the one of Komeito increased.

Ozawa formed a new political party again January in 1998, and became its leader, then the new political party gathered Diet members whose thought were equal to the one on Ozawa completely. It was the political party for Ozawa himself alone.

〈When looking up at the blue sky on the first day of the year, he decided to resign〉

Murayama...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈When looking up at the sky of the first day of the year, he decided to resign〉

The sensational Murayama Cabinet went on for a year and a half, and then the Murayama Prime Minister expressed his resignation suddenly on the fifth day January in 1996. It was immediately after the new year. He said when looking up at the blue sky of the first day of the year, he decided.

Actually he was tired out so much that he was made up his mind to resign from the end of the previous year.

The great earthquake broke out in the Hanshin area and Awaji island in the...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈When looking up at the sky of the first day of the year, he decided to resign〉

The great earthquake broke out at Hanshin and Awaji area, but Murayama couldn`t deal with it in the beginning quickly, so he was criticized severely. Besides Aum Shinrikyo which was a big social problem then was also a heavy pressure for him.

To make matters worse, after he became the Prime Minister, the Socialist Party changed its basic plan one after another so a serious confusion was caused inside the Socialist Party then.

There was a movement of forming a new...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈When looking up at the sky of the first day of the year, he decided to resign〉

Instead of the Socialist Party, there was a movement of forming a new political party, so Murayama was worried about the political party which he belonged to. It was impossible for him to do both of the job as the Prime Minister and the chairperson on the Socialist Party at the same time. He couldn`t bear a strong pressure on the job as the Prime Minister.

〈The pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

Everyone was surprised at the Murayama Cabinet itself, but when ....

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈The pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

...but when listening to a speech in National Assembly by Murayama, the nation was by far more surprised then.

The Socialist Party continued to insist the next things.

The Self Defense Forces was an existence which was against the constitution, pretermination on the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, and they didn`t recognize Kimigayo and the rising sun flag as the national anthem and the national flag.

The Socialist Party denied its insistence until then

Murayama tried to say maintenance on the Japan ...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Advantages and disadvantages on the Murayama Cabinet〉

As to the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, he tried to say maintenance in Japanese, 維持, but he
made mistake, stick to it, 堅持 in Japanese, though it`s just something more to the change on the Socialist Party, and it isn`t so important, it`s was just a mistake.

The Prime Minister was the supreme commander in the Self-Defense Forces, so if he said the Self-Defense Forces was against the constitution, it was clear that the whole Japan would be confused so bad.

His judgement made him say the Self...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Advantages and disadvantages on the Murayama Cabinet〉

His judgement of that made him say the Self-Defense Forces wasn`t against the constitution, and it was welcomed by the Liberal Democratic Party.

On the other hand the people who supported the Socialist Party criticized the Socialist Party severely, for he changed the policy relation to the significance on existence of the Socialist Party easily, without doing by a proper procedure on the Socialist Party, but Murayama himself changed it in his speech or in his answer in National Assembly at will.

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【It was the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

It wasn`t the Prime Minister alone who changed the traditional way easily. It was Koken Nosaka who took office as the Minister of Construction as Cabinet Minister. He decided to start to use the dam at the mouth of the Nagara River as the Minister of Construction.

The Socialist Party was in position which was opposed to the dam in the mouth of the Nagara River until then, and Nosaka joined force with a movement on signature opposed to against its construction.

Changing of plans were done one after...

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【It was the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

Changing plans were done one after another. Should we call it marvelous or merciless?

The nation was taken aback because the plans until then were changed easily, and criticized severely the political party changed its plan easily because it won the political power.

On the other hand it was certain the Socialist party carried out things which the political power on the Liberal Democratic Party couldn`t do as usual.

A law on protection for atomic bomb victim which was a pending problem for a long...

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【It was a time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on Murayama Cabinet〉

A law on protection of atomic bomb which was a long pending problem was established, and a special system for benefit to the victims on the atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was made by the responsibility of the nation.

Relief measures on patients by Minamata disease was arranged by the nation, and the Murayama Cabinet made an effort to form a law which promoted culture on Ainu race expressing having a respect the culture on Ainu.

In addition the government announced a talk fifty years after the war.

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【It was the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

Murayama recognized the responsibility on the war by Japan clearly in the talk and said like the next.

Japan made a mistake its national policy once in the past when it wasn`t so long ago and moved forward to the war, and the Japanese fell into a crisis of life or death. Lots of countries were damaged by controlling colonies and invasion of Japan, especially the people in each nation of Asia were damaged and suffered from it a lot.

I`ve accepted it as historic fact modestly in order not to repeat to...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

I`ve accepted it as historic fact modestly in order not to repeat to make a mistake in the future, and expressed an reflection acutely here newly, and expressed apology from the bottom of my heart here.

Murayama said like that and his talk has been taken over as Murayama talk in the Cabinet of the Liberal Democratic Party after that.

If Japanese government was sought for an opinion of the responsibility on the war by Japan, a expression of along the point of Murayama talk has been used.

Thus evaluation...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

Thus an evaluation on the Murayama Cabinet has been divided.

Shigeru Ito who supported the Murayama Cabinet belonged to the Socialist Party said like the next.

The Murayama Cabinet accomplished an outcome for a short term which a conservative policy couldn`t, but it allowed the Liberal Democratic Party to revive for a medium term, and the Socialist Party split and fell into a small scale of political party.

While there was a policy which came true because of the Prime Minister in the Socialist Party...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

...changing the plans made members in the Socialist Party who continued activity steadily each place for a long time feel disillusioned. As a result the people who left from the Socialist Party and others who stopped supporting the political party increased, especially a criticism handing over the place of the Prime Minister to Ryutaro Hashimoto who was the president in the Democratic Party and helped the Liberal Democratic Party to revive was sent.

Why has the Socialist Party....

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

Why had the Socialist Party struggled since the 1955 system? Why did it join the coalition Hosokawa government of anti Liberal Democratic Party?

There is a proverb that 一将功成りて万骨枯る

The Prime Minister was from the political party, so the proverb was suitable for the situation, for the Prime Minister was from the Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party took the political power which was it`s heart`s desire, but it connected with the collapse on the political party.

The Murayama Cabinet retired...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Pluses and minuses on the Murayama Cabinet〉

The Murayama Cabinet retired and immediately after a convention of the Socialist Party was held January in 1996, and the political party changed its name from the Socialist Party to the Social Democratic Party.

Changing the name on the political party caught up with changing its policy. In other words, the political party accepted changing its policy as changing the name of the political party.

〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and alliance of a large scale〉

As to the plan of joining hands with the...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance of a large scale〉

As to the plan of joining hands with the Liberal Democratic Party, Diet Members who had a critical opinion appeared among in both of the Socialist Party and Shinto Sakigake.

Confrontation between the Liberal Democratic Party and Shinshinto continued, so existence on other political parties would be unclear and remain unknown to the society, so the supporters would left from them gradually. As a result, they wouldn`t compete in the next election in this situation.

The Diet Members...

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〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and alliance of a large scale〉

Diet Members who had a critical opinion had a sense of impending crisis then, and their thought caused a movement of looking for a formation on the third political influence.

The third means it wasn`t the confrontation between the Liberal Democratic Party and Shinshinto. It was other political influence, and its center was Yukio Hatoyama who was one of executives in Shinto Sakigake.

Hatoyama called Naoto Kan to be the center of forming a new political party. Then Kan searched...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance of a great scale〉

Then Kan looked closely into the responsibility on the Ministry of Health over AIDS caused by transfusions of HIV-tainted blood products, and apologized for its patients as the Minister of Health and was supported from the nation so much.

Hatoyama and Kan didn`t allow the whole Socialist Party and Shinto Sakigake as organization, and adopted a way of joining the new political party by each of the Diet Members personally.

With the way, they got rid of members who promoted the...

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〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance in a large scale〉

They removed members who promoted the coalition government made up with the Liberal Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, and Shinto Sakigake. Thus Japan Democratic Party was formed September in 1996.

Its name was the same as the one which joined the Liberal Party and formed the Liberal Democratic Party, but it was other political party altogether.

Shinshinto disbanded suddenly at the end of the next year, and Ozawa formed a new political party, and other members who used to...

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〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance in a large scale〉

...and other members who used to belong to Komeito made up other group. Another members formed a new political parties in variety, but each of them was too small to have enough influence, so they thought they joined the Japan Democratic Party and formed a big political party which was opposed to the Liberal Democratic Party.

A New Democratic Party was formed April in 1998 made up with ninety three of members of the House of Representatives and thirty eight of the House of Councilors.

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〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and alliance in a large scale〉

Its total number on Diet members were one hundred thirty one, and its representative was Naoto Kan. The Japanese Democratic Party was such a big political party that it wasn`t the third existence any more then.

It became a big political influence which played a part of two of the powerful political parties like the Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Democratic Party, but varied Diet Members who were from different political parties such as the Socialist Party, Shinto Sakigake etc...

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〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance in a large scale〉

...so they were often opposed over their policy inside the political party, so it was a political organization which had a possibility of division.

Moreover the Japan Democratic Party of which representative was Naoto Kan adopted a way of presenting realistic measures rather than confrontation against the Liberal Democratic Party direct, but it was unclear whether it was the ruling party or the opposition party, so it was made a cynical remark like the next.

The ruling party is ...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈Japan Democratic Party was formed and an alliance in a large scale〉

A ruling party was called 与党 and a opposition party was called 野党 in Japanese, but the Japan Democratic Party didn`t belong to both of them, so it was in the middle of them, ゆ党, the cynical remark was like that.

『Column, AIDS caused by transfusions of HIV-tainted blood products』

Though patients on hemophilia 血友病 used blood products for their treatment, virus of AIDS was contained in the blood products, so lots of the patients contracted AIDS and were dead. Introduction of heated...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

『Column, AIDS caused by transfusion of HIV-tainted blood products』

Introduction of heated and safe blood product was delayed due to the Ministry of Health. There was a voice among the patients, so Naoto Kan who was then the Minister of Health responded to the voice. He accepted the responsibility on the Ministry of Health and apologized the patients for the delayed.

〈The Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

As Tomiichi Murayama expressed resignation from the Prime Minister suddenly, Ryutaro Hashimoto took office as Prime Minister.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

Though the Liberal Democratic Party lost the political power once on account of the formation of the Hosokawa coalition government, it returned to the position of the political power again.

With the inauguration on the Prime Minister by Ryutaro Hashimoto, the Socialist Party changed into a position where it cooperated with the Liberal Democratic Party outside the Cabinet.

While it stayed in the coalition government, any Cabinet Ministers weren`t from the Socialist Party.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

After that, the Socialist Party changed its name and its leader changed from Tomiichi Murayama to Takako Doi. The new political party took a position as anti Liberal Democratic Party again and annulled the coalition government then.

Hashimoto was different from Murayama, so he expected a day when he became the Prime Minister some day and prepared for it in relation to his actions.

Even if Murayama retired from the Prime Minister....

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

...the coalition government formed by the three political parties continued, so Hashimoto tackled a reform within the frame of the coalition government.

His reform was reorganization on the central government ministries and agencies, reform on financial system and financial structure.

Reorganization on the central ministries and agencies which Hashimoto tackled was carried out from January in 2001. It was just increasing the number on ministries and agencies. It was an...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

It was just an adjustment on number. There was a criticism like that, but it was certain that a structure on the central ministries and agencies which was formed after the war was changed greatly then.

The reform on the financial system was called a Big Bang in Japan. A law controlling on management of foreign exchange was reformed, and liberalization of a fee on exchanging securities was moved forward.

Making a fence between banks and stock brokerage firm low, so...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

...so went ahead with the deregulation of the financial industry like America and Europe.

Besides, as to the reform on financial structure, Japanese finance was about to fall into critical situation thanks to increase of deficit covering bond, so consumption tax was raised from three to five% so as to improve the situation, so the nation had to pay more money for the consumption tax.

The reform made the Japanese economy which was recovering then go into a stall again.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of the Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

Hashimoto was criticized like that on the reform of financial structure.

Both of brokerage firms of Sanyo and Yamaichi and Hokkaido Colonial Bank collapsed their management one after another autumn in in 1997, and the reform on the financial structure was frozen.

Stalling on the economy made the depression severe, and an election of the House of Councilors was done in the middle of the depression June in 1998, and the Liberal Democratic Party lost it.

Hashimoto took the...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A position of Prime Minister returned to the Liberal Democratic Party〉

Hashimoto took the responsibility for the defeat in election and retired from the Prime Minister.

『Column, Big Bang on finance in Japan』

Big Bang is a big explosion when the cosmos started. English economy started not only a liberalization on the industry of securities but deregulation on the financial industry altogether, and it was called the Big Bang then, and after that English economy has developed.

Hashimoto aimed at coming true the reform in Japan, so it was called the...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

『Column, Big Bang on finance in Japan』

...so it was called the Big Bang on finance in Japan then.

〈An ordinary man became the Prime Minister〉

An election for the president who was a successor of Hashimoto in the Liberal Democratic Party was done, and three people of Keizo Obuchi, Seiroku Kajiyama, and Junichiro Koizumi ran for and competed.

Makiko Tanaka made a comment on that it was a battle among an ordinary man, a serviceman, and a strange man, and her expression was so wonderful that it became a vogue word then.

Obuchi won the battle owning...

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〈An ordinary man became the Prime Minister〉

Obuchi won the battle owing to the power of number on members of Diet belonged to Hashimoto side, and won the position of the Prime Minister then. The ordinary man became the Prime Minister.

He went to listen to other people who were in every field from their opinions so easily that Hiroyasu Nakasone who used to be the Prime Minister called him a vacuum Prime Minister.
It means like the next.

Vacuum means there was nothing in the content, empty, for he could absorb everything around him because he was empty

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈An ordinary man became the Prime Minister〉

He called anybody up easily, so everyone called him not push phone but Bucchi phone.

In the beginning, a magazine in America described he was a cold pizza, and approval rating for the Obuchi Cabinet was low in Japan, but its approval rate rose gradually on account of Obuchi`s open-hearted character.

Beat Takeshi who is a Japanese comedian expressed it was a ramen shop in seaside. It means that it seemed it wasn`t good but it was good unexpectedly, and Obuchi was pleased with the expression very much.

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈An ordinary man became the Prime Minister〉

On the other hand, Obuchi tried to make Japanese economy escape from depression and issued a large amount of deficit covering bond, and Japanese financial situation became worse extremely.

Then he called himself who went into debt than any other people in the world.

〈A new coalition government started again but this time...〉

The Liberal Democratic Party decreased its seats so much because the Hashimoto government was defeated in the election of the House of Councilors, and its seats were below the...

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〈A new coalition government started again, but this time...〉

...and it was below the majority in the House of Councilors, so the single Liberal Democratic Party couldn`t make a bill pass in National Assembly, so it suddenly approached the political party led by Ichiro Ozawa and Komeito, for if forming a coalition government with either of them, it would win the majority.

The Liberal Democratic Party was in a position of anti Ozawa then, but it changed its plan easily. Furthermore, it built up a campaign of anti Komeito, anti Sokagakkai in the time...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A new coalition government was formed again, but this time...〉

Besides, the Liberal Democratic Party built up a campaign of anti Komeito, anti Soka Gakkai in the time of Hosokawa government and Murayama government, but it joined hands with Komeito as well.

After that, the political party led by Ozawa left from the coalition government and several people were left from the political party led by Ozawa and a conservative political party was formed, and the Liberal Democratic Party joined hands with the conservative political party, and formed...

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【To the time of a coalition government】

〈A coalition government was formed again, but this time...〉

...and formed a coalition government was formed again. It was made up with the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, and the conservative political party.

The Liberal Democratic Party has shown us it made much of being the ruling party rather than having an idea on its policy clearly, very easily to understand.

〈He made an inappropriate remark, so his nature as Prime Minister was doubted〉

The President Obuchi came down with the cerebral infarction and soon was dead April in 2004. When...

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