Talk:1993 Japanese general election

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The assertion that the LDP lost its majority in the election is not quite correct. Compared to the composition of the House of Representatives immediately before the election, it actually gained one seat (the stated loss of 52 seats obviously refers to the previous election in 1990). The point was that it had lost its majority before the election when Tsutomu Hata and Ichiro Ozawa along with their followers had left to form the Japan Renewal Party.
On a side note: Though technically correct, the House was not dissolved by the PM’s decision, but as a direct result of the failed confidence vote (failed because the Hata/Ozawa faction had voted against Miyazawa alongside the opposition), as article 69 of the Constitution of Japan states: "If the House of Representatives passes a non-confidence resolution, or rejects a confidence resolution, the Cabinet shall resign en masse, unless the House of Representatives is dissolved within ten days" --79.199.66.57 (talk) 20:57, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Eight-party alliance

The article should explain which parties constituted the "Eight-party alliance", especially since that term redirects here. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 15:31, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

• It should be noted that it was not yet a solid alliance in the 1993 HR general – many gains by other opposition parties were actually pickups from the Socialists. There was a joint feeling of "anti-LDPism" in the non-Communist opposition and Ozawa's call for "political reform" was picked up by other parties; but it was not an alliance in the sense that candidate nominations were coordinated/cross-endorsed everywhere. My impression is (but you would have to go through all electoral districts and count the candidates and endorsements to be sure) that the old DSP-Kōmeitō bloc was generally more inclined to cooperate with the LDP defectors (JRP and NPH) while the SDF (ex-NLC ally) seems to have often sided with the JSP. But again, this is just my impression as I started work on a List of detailed results.
• As for the actual formation of the coalition/"alliance": The coalition agreement was finalized in the last days of July. Morihiro Hosokawa (JNP) was elected prime minister on August 6 by 262 votes vs. 224 for Yōhei Kōno (LDP) in the HR – the HC (where the opposition had already held a majority since the 1989 HC regular) also voted for Hosokawa by 132 to 93. His cabinet was launched on August 9 and was a coalition of JSP, JRP, Kōmeitō, DSP, JNP, NPH, SDF and DRP (formerly Rengō no Kai, the political arm of the Rengō trade union federation; it was only represented in the HC and only received a parliamentary secretary post – not a minister of state – in the cabinet). In Japanese, the "Eight-party alliance" is often referred to as hi-jimin-hi-kyōsan-renritsu seiken ("non-LDP-non-JCP coalition government", ja:非自民・非共産連立政権).

--Asakura Akira (talk) 17:04, 2 January 2013 (UTC)