Democratic Party (Japan, 1996)

The Democratic Party of Japan (民主党, Minshutō) was a centrist political party in Japan, and one of the forerunners to the Democratic Party of Japan formed in 1998. Its two leading members, Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, subsequently and sequentially became Prime Ministers at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.

Democratic Party of Japan
民主党
Minshutō
PresidentNaoto Kan
Chief SecretaryYukio Hatoyama
FoundersNaoto Kan
Yukio Hatoyama
Founded29 September 1996
Dissolved27 April 1998
Split fromNew Party Sakigake
Social Democratic Party of Japan
Merged intoDemocratic Party of Japan
IdeologyLiberalism
Political positionCentre
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