Former Japanese PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has died, an informed source said Friday, News.az reports citing Kyodo News.
He was 101.
Murayama, who headed the then Social Democratic Party, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party and the now-defunct New Party Sakigake, and became prime minister in June 1994.
Murayama became the first socialist prime minister in 47 years, leading an unprecedented alliance of long-time political rivals -- his Social Democratic Party and the conservative Liberal Democratic Party plus the now-defunct small LDP splinter group New Party Sakigake.
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