Morihiro Hosokawa 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. 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. He has been, since 2005, the head of the Kumamoto-Hosokawa clan, one of the former noble families of Japan.
Official portrait, 1993
Morihiro Hosokawa (at the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 1993)
with Boris Yeltsin, Hirohisa Fujii and Masayoshi Takemura (in Tōkyō on October, 1993)
with Bill Clinton (at APEC on November, 1993)
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