Morihiro Hosokawa

Morihiro Hosokawa
細川 護熙
Official portrait, 1993
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Kiichi Miyazawa
Succeeded by	Tsutomu Hata
Leader of the New Party
In office 22 May 1992 – 9 December 1994
Preceded by	Party Established
Succeeded by	Party Abolished
Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture
In office 11 February 1983 – 10 February 1991
Preceded by	Issei Sawada
Succeeded by	Joji Fukushima
Member of the House of Councillors
In office 4 July 1971 – 10 July 1977
Constituency	National District
In office 10 July 1977 – 11 February 1983
Preceded by	Moriyoshi Morinaka
Succeeded by	Masaru Urata
Constituency	Kumamoto At-large District
In office 26 July 1992 – 18 July 1993
Constituency	National Block
Member of the House of Representatives for Kumamoto 1st District[a]
In office 18 July 1993 – 7 May 1998
Preceded by	Shōichi Tanaka
Succeeded by	Eiichi Iwashita
Personal details
Born	(1938-01-14) 14 January 1938 (age 86) Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Political party	Democratic Party (1998–2016)
Other political affiliations	LDP (until 1992) JNP (1992–1994) NFP (1994–1997) From Five (1997–1998) GGP (1998)
Spouse	Kayoko Ueda ​ (m. 1971)​
Children	3 (including Morimitsu)
Alma mater	Sophia University
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Morihiro Hosokawa (細川 護煕, Hosokawa Morihiro, born 14 January 1938) 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.^[1] 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.^[2] He has been, since 2005, the head of the Kumamoto-Hosokawa clan, one of the former noble families of Japan.

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