General elections were held in Japan on 20 October 1996. A coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party, ... Background · Contesting parties · Results · Aftermath

But on 27 September 1996, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (Liberal Democratic Party - LDP) dissolved Parliament and the polling date was set. This move to call ...

the Social Democratic Party of Japan and Sakigake have not formally joined the LDP as coalition partners as they had been before the elec tion, the same policy ...

Chief of State: Emperor AKIHITO; Head of Government: Prime Minister HASHIMOTO Ryutaro; Assembly: Japan has a bicameral Diet (Kokkai) consisting of the House of ...

After the drama of the 1993 election, which ended the 38-year reign of the Liberal Democratic. Party (LDP) and a major political reform which introduced a new ...

General elections were held in Japan on 20 October 1996. The governing Liberal Democratic Party, led by Yōhei Kōno, was defeated in a landslide by the ...

The nomination process for the next general election in Japan: waiting for the Heiritsusei. Asian Survey, 35 (1995), pp. 1075-1087.

general election in Japan held in 1996. Japanese general election, 1996. In more languages. Spanish. Elecciones generales de Japón de 1996.

Japan's new electoral system may or may not be good for Japanese democracy, but it is almost ideally designed for the study of strategic voting.

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