New Liberal Club 新自由クラブ Shin-jiyū-kurabu | |
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| Leader | Yōhei Kōno |
| Secretary-General | Takeo Nishioka |
| Founded | June 25, 1976 |
| Dissolved | August 15, 1986 |
| Split from | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Merged into | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Ideology | Progressivism[1] |
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New Liberal Club (新自由クラブ, Shin-jiyū-kurabu) was a political party in Japan that was founded on 25 June 1976 as a breakaway from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The New Liberal Club formed a coalition government with the LDP in December 1983, with the New Liberal's president, Seiichi Tagawa, serving as the Minister of Home Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.[2]
It rejoined the LDP on 15 August 1986.
- ^ Beeman, Michael L. (2002). Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-0415249690. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
- ^ "Former minister Tagawa dies at 91". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 9, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2015.