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Article: Japan's Voters Rebuke Ruling Coalition Parties; Murayama to Stay as Leader Despite Broad Losses
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- The Washington Post
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- July 24, 1995
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Japan's voters delivered a serious setback to Prime Minister
Tomiichi Murayama and his ruling coalition in today's partial
parliamentary election as a reform-minded opposition group emerged as
the nation's most popular political party.
The results were not severe enough to topple Murayama's government
immediately. But the vote set a clock ticking, and it seems almost
certain that the shaky coalition will give way to a new national
election within months.
That seemed to be the immediate popular response to the returns in
today's election to fill half of the 252 seats in the upper house of
the national Diet, or parliament.
If control of the government were to swing toward the self-
described ...