The Japan Renewal Party was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s. It was founded in 1993 by 44 members of the Liberal Democratic Party led by Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa. It was instrumental in ending the LDP's 38-year dominance of Japanese politics.
Image: Tsutomu Hata cropped 2 Tsutomu Hata 19940428
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The Liberal Democratic Party , frequently abbreviated to LDP or Jimintō (自民党), is a major conservative and Japanese nationalist political party in Japan.
Launching convention, 15 November 1955
Liberal Democratic Hall Bldg., Headquarters of the LDP in Tokyo