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Morihiro Hosokawa
Morihiro Hosokawa is a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994. He led an eight-party coalition government which was the first Japanese government not headed by a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) premier since 1955.
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culture · Prime Minister of Japan from 1993 to 1994 · politician · journalist · ceramicist · potter · also Morihiro Hosokawa, Hosokawa
Born 14 January 1938 · Q315555
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At the age of 75, Hosokawa was approached by the DPJ to run in the Tokyo gubernatorial election
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2011· 1 entry
The Financial Times: Pottery with the FT: Morihiro Hosokawa
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2005· 2 entries
Hosokawa succeeded him as the head of the Hosokawa family
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Has been the 18th head of the main branch of the Hosokawa clan, which held the titles of Marquis and Lord of Higo
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1998· 1 entry
From Five merged into the Good Governance Party, which itself merged into the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) later that year
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1996· 1 entry
And Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in 1998 before retiring from politics
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1994· 2 entries
But, following further disputes with Ichiro Ozawa, left in 1997 with four other legislators who formed the short-lived From Five party
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Hosokawa teamed up with Junichiro Koizumi of the LDP and Shusei Tanaka of New Party Sakigake in a strategic dialogue across party lines regarding Japan becoming a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council
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1993· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Japan (1993–1994).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Representatives of Japan (1993–1998).
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1992· 1 entry
Hosokawa left the LDP to found the reformist Japan New Party, which won 35 seats in the 1993 general election
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: governor of Kumamoto Prefecture (1983–1991).
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To become the governor of Kumamoto, where he served until 1991
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1971· 4 entries
With his campaign funded by party boss Kakuei Tanaka
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Career landmark: member of the House of Councillors (1971–1983).
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Before leaving to serve as governor of his home prefecture from 1983 to 1991
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His wife, Kayoko Hosokawa, to whom he has been married since 23 October 1971, served as honorary chair of the Special Olympics Nippon Foundation and headed NPOs devoted to providing vaccines to children in developing nations and helping the intellectually disabled.
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-01-14.
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