THE GOVERNMENT OF MODERN JAPAN: JAPAN'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM 1993-1994 Reform |
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Gerald L. Curtis :: In 1993, when the Liberal Democratic Party lost power and a coalition government, led by Hosokawa [Morihiro Hosokawa, prime minister of Japan from August 1993 to April 1994] came into power, one of the promises the new Hosokawa government made was to change this electoral system. In fact, the only thing that the seven parties in the coalition government formed by Mr. Hosokawa and his allies in 1993, the only thing that all these seven parties could agree upon was the need to change the election system. And after they succeeded in doing that in 1994, they were unable to find anything else to agree upon, and they shortly thereafter, the coalition government collapsed shortly thereafter. So in 1994, the Japanese Diet passed a law that changed the election system, eliminating the medium-size election district system that had been in effect since 1925, and creating a very different system in its place.
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