Ryutaro Hashimoto
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Ryutaro Hashimoto was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998.
Official portrait, 1996
Hashimoto with Tomiichi Murayama and the Ministers of Murayama Government (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on 30 June 1994)
Hashimoto with Bill Clinton (at Akasaka Palace on 17 April 1996)
Hashimoto with William Cohen (at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on 9 April 1997)
Keizō Obuchi
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Keizō Obuchi was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 1998 to 2000.
Ryutaro Hashimoto
…lost more seats. Hashimoto resigned to take responsibility for this failure, and was succeeded as LDP president and Prime Minister by Foreign Minister Keizō Obuchi. Hashimoto stayed in a LDP adviser party, and in the 2nd Mori Cabinet the Minister of Okinawa Development Agency and Minister in charge of administrative…
Official portrait, 1998
Obuchi announcing the new Heisei era, 7 January 1989
Obuchi with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Cologne in 1999