Tomiichi Murayama
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Tomiichi Murayama was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1994 to 1996. He was the country's only socialist premier since Tetsu Katayama in 1948, and is best remembered fo
Official portrait, 1994
Cabinet of Tomiichi Murayama
Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama with Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1994
Hanshin Expressway after the Great Hanshin earthquake
Japan Socialist Party
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The Japan Socialist Party was a major socialist, progressive, and left-wing political party in Japan. Established in 1945, the party was the primary representative of the Japanese left and main oppone
Tomiichi Murayama
…Meiji University in 1946, and became a labor union official in his home prefecture. He was elected to the Ōita City Council in 1955 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party; he was then elected to the Ōita Prefectural Assembly in 1963 and to the National Diet in 1972. After the JSP joined the government following the 1993…
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