Japan Renewal Party

Renewal Party (Japanese新生 党, Shinseitō ;新生abbreviated, Shinsei, . Engl Japan Renewal Party, JRP ) was a political party in Japan. It existed between 1993 and 1994. You was one of the first new parties (LDP ) emerged in the early 1990s during the crisis of the Liberal Democratic Party.

The renovation party was founded on 23 June 1993 by Tsutomu Hata and Ichiro Ozawa, who had left a leadership struggle with Noboru Takeshita faction leaders after several scandals the LDP. The LDP members of the Hata - Ozawa faction joined them, making the party rose at its inception with 36 lower house and upper house 8 members immediately to the third- strongest opposition party, the LDP lost its absolute majority in the lower house.

In the following general election, 1993, the renewal Party won again added 19 seats and thus overtook the Kōmeitō. After the election, the former opposition parties formed with the exception of the Communist Party, a coalition and urged the LDP after 38 years from the government. Hata, leader of the Revival Party, was foreign minister in the coalition after Secretary-General Ozawa had organized the coalition talks.

In April 1994, the Socialist Party left the government in the dispute and the other coalition parties formed a minority government. Hata was prime minister, but stepped back already after two months and allowed the LDP through an alliance with its archrival, the Socialist Party, the path back to power.

As a result of this setback, again forced into the opposition parties were negotiating the formation of a common party to bundle their forces. All members of the Renewal Party joined the new party, the Shinshinto, and with the founding congress of the Shinshinto on 10 December 1994 heard the renewal party to exist as an independent force.

• Historical party (Japan)