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Article: LDP Regains Majority in Japan's Lower House

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September 5, 1997
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) regained sole control of the House of Representatives (Lower House) today for the first time in four years after it accepted a former member back into its fold.

Naoto Kitamura, a Lower House member who left the opposition New Frontier Party (NFP) in May, applied to rejoin the LDP today and was immediately approved by the LDP's Party Ethics Committee.

The LDP now holds 250 seats in the 500-seat Lower House, regaining the majority it lost in the 1993 general elections.

In 1993, LDP lost its majority for the first time since its 1955 formation when a group of LDP members, including Kitamura, broke away from the party. The ...

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