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  Tomiichi Murayama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tomiichi Murayama (村山 富市 Murayama Tomi'ichi, born March 3, 1924) is a retired Japanese politician who served as the 81st Prime Minister of Japan from June 30, 1994 to January 11, 1996.
He was the head of the Japan Socialist Party (now the Social Democratic Party) and the first Socialist prime minister in fifty years.
Murayama was known as a tough negotiator with good calm personality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murayama_Tomiichi   (591 words)

  
 1/15/96/INT Japan: SHAKE-UP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Time off for Japan's Tomiichi Murayama seemed to be going exactly as planned, in the bosom of his family and the privacy of contemplation.
Murayama's new partnership with the small New Party and the L.D.P., the object of Socialist recriminations for many years, was a wonder for Japanese to behold--a distinctly weird coupling comprehensible only as naked expediency.
Murayama has accepted the legitimacy of the Self-Defense Forces, endorsed Japan's security treaty with the U.S. and invoked the extreme antisubversion law against a religious sect: Aum Shinrikyo, the far-out cult accused of killing 12 subway riders and sickening thousands by planting sarin-gas bombs in the transit system last March.
www.time.com /time/international/1996/960115/japan.html   (2008 words)

  
 New Party Sakigake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1994, New Party Sakigake took part in the government of Murayama Tomiichi, a government coalition of the Liberal Democrats and the Japan Socialist Party, which replaced the liberal coalition headed the previous year by the Japan Renewal Party.
The Sakigake Party took part in the government of Murayama Tomiichi, which was basically a government coalition with the LDP and the Japan Socialist Party.
In 1997, the New Party Sakigake had 2 members in the House of Representatives and 3 members in the House of Councillors, which was good for them, especially after the LDP became the ruling party again.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Party_Sakigake   (297 words)

  
 Former Japanese PM Angered by Koizumi's Shrine Statement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tomiichi Murayama, the first Japanese prime minister to formally admit Japan's responsibility in World War II, expressed outrage that words from his 1995 statement of apology were used to justify Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine, a leading Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday.
Murayama, former leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), served as Japanese prime minister in a coalition government when Japan marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the war.
Murayama's expression of "remorse" for "Japan's colonial rule and aggression" has since become the Japanese government’s official stance concerning the country's military past.
big51.china.com.cn /english/MATERIAL/17525.htm   (335 words)

  
 Murayama, Tomiichi
At the age of 70, Murayama, who had held no previous political office, became Japan's first socialist prime minister for more than 40 years.
Despite losses for the SDPJ in upper-house elections in 1995, his administration survived until January 1996; he resigned from the SDPJ leadership in September 1996.
Murayama's withdrawal of his party's support, which occurred within hours of the new government taking office, forced Hata's eventual resignation.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0045528.html   (236 words)

  
 Japan's prime minister resigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Murayama and his Cabinet were to remain in place as a caretaker government until a new one can be formed.
Murayama, who quit together with his government ministers at a Cabinet meeting today, had been prime minister since June 1994.
Murayama had said previously he would like to resign, but that he feared weakening his coalition.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/01/05/japan.html   (426 words)

  
 CNN - Japan Prime Minister to resign - Jan 5, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Koichi Kato, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, said that Murayama "is strongly determined to resign." The Liberal Democratic Party rules in a coalition with Murayama's Socialists.
Murayama met with the leaders of his coalition government at his residence to discuss his future political career, officials said.
Murayama was set to hold a press conference later Friday, but canceled it two hours before it began.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9601/japan_politics   (255 words)

  
 Murayama Tomiichi --  Encyclopædia Britannica
One of 11 children born to a fisherman, Murayama graduated from Meiji University in Tokyo in 1946 and then returned to Oita, where he became an activist in the local fishermen's union.
The election in June 1994 of Tomiichi Murayama as Japan's first Socialist prime minister in 47 years surprised everyone, including himself.
With no previous experience in government or international affairs and little economic expertise, the self-effacing Murayama, the third prime minister in a year, was viewed as another titular head of another shaky coalition.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002237?tocId=9002237   (373 words)

  
 President Greets Friends From Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chinese President Jiang Zemin met Thursday with "two old friends of China": former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who is heading a delegation of the Japan-China Friendship Association (JCFA), and JCFA President Ikuo Hirayama.
Jiang spoke highly of the contributions made by Tomiichi Murayama and Ikuo Hirayama to the friendship between China and Japan, and thanked friends in JCFA for their efforts to promote non-governmental exchanges and advance the bilateral friendly relations between the two countries.
Tomiichi Murayama, also JCFA's honorary adviser, said that the joint statement signed by the two countries during Jiang's 1998 Japan visit called for the building of a friendly and cooperative partnership devoted to peace, creating brighter prospects for Japan-China relations in the 21st century.
www.china.com.cn /english/FR/21830.htm   (288 words)

  
 Tomiichi Murayama -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tomiichi Murayama (村山 富市 Murayama Tomiichi) (born March 3, 1924) was the 81st (Click link for more info and facts about Prime Minister of Japan) Prime Minister of Japan from June 30, 1994 to January 11, 1996 and was replaced by (Click link for more info and facts about Ryutaro Hashimoto) Ryutaro Hashimoto.
He was the head of the (Click link for more info and facts about Japan Socialist Party) Japan Socialist Party, which was renamed (A political party in Germany and Britain (and elsewhere) founded in late 19th century; originally Marxist; now advocates the gradual transformation of capitalism into democratic socialism) Social Democratic Party in 1996.
Murayama graduated from the (Click link for more info and facts about Meiji University) Meiji University.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tomiichi_murayama.htm   (582 words)

  
 JAPAN / N. KOREA
Murayama is carrying a letter from Japan's current Prime Minister, Keizo Obuchi, to North Korea's leader, Kim Chong-il.
Murayama is leading a mission that hopes to propel Japan and North Korea to resume negotiations on re- establishing formal diplomatic ties.
Murayama says he hopes the issue can be included in any formal diplomatic negotiations between the two nations.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/1999/991201-dprk1.htm   (322 words)

  
 Japan Prime Minister Comes Under Fire from Businessmen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As businessmen here fired a barrage of criticism at the government, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and his coalition partners failed Monday to agree on whether they would form a new Cabinet to try to energize an administration supported by only 20 percent of all Japanese voters.
Murayama acknowledged that the election showed "distrust in politics has heightened." Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura, head of the New Party Harbinger, the third member of the coalition, said the Cabinet "must adopt a stronger posture in favor of reform" of both the economy and the government administration.
Murayama reiterated Monday that he was not thinking of calling one in the near future.
www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N29/japan.29w.html   (476 words)

  
 New Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Japan's prime minister tomiichi murayama Sunday urged the united nations to Use "human security" as a guiding principle in its effort to address global Issues.
Murayama said that Japan deeply regrets that nuclear Experiments are going on and hopes that they will be immediately ended.
Murayama asked For support for a resolution against nuclear testing Japan plans to present Together with other u.n.
www.cpdsindia.org /whatsnew/newsarticle5.htm   (382 words)

  
 RE: no point arguing this   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama personally apologized for illegal war crimes in 1995, he failed to obtain support in the Diet for an official apology by a margin of almost 2 to 1.
Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama issued an official owabi apology on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II but soon after qualified his statement, stressing that it was a personal apology, not a national one.
Murayama government was a coalition of 3 parties, LDP (自民党), Japan Socialist party (日本社会党), and Shinto Sakigake (旰党さきがけ, a short-lived offshot of LDP).
forum.japantoday.com /fb.asp?m=349418   (3761 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Japan's Leadership Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announced his resignation on Jan. 5, although LDP president Ryutaro Hashimoto and Sakigake head Masayoshi Takemura repeatedly urged him to stay.
It is also reported that the ruling parties have reached an agreement of maintaining their coalition after Murayama's resignation and even agreed to recommend Hashimoto as the next prime minster.
Jie Fang Daily ("MURAYAMA WANTS TO BE RE- ELECTED AS HEAD OF SOCIALIST PARTY", A4, 1/7/96) At the meeting held by the heads of three ruling parties on Jan. 8, LDP president Ryutaro Hashimoto was nominated as the candidate of Japanese Prime Minister.
www.nautilus.org /VietnamFOIA/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/daily_reports/1996/01-96_--_Jan/JAN11.txt   (2141 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama suddenly resigned on January 5, opening a new stage in the breakup of the postwar political system in Japan.
Murayama, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said Japan needed "fresh leadership to tackle unsettled issues" and called for the next prime minister to be chosen from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the largest party in the shaky three-party coalition.
Murayama's resignation came in the face of extensive corporate criticism of the government's failure to halt the country's five-year-long economic slump.
www.wsws.org /public_html/prioriss/iwb1-15/spotlt.htm   (714 words)

  
 murayama.htm in Business Recorder on August 06, 1995
Murayama, the Socialist party chief, said the reshuffle was meant to breathe new life into his 13-month-old government and meet demands to prop up the sagging economy.
But as soon as Murayama decided to reshuffle his cabinet last Friday, the plan got bogged down in internal feuding in his three-way ruling coalition.
Murayama said the reshuffle would take place in the first half of the week, without specifying the date.
www.paksearch.com /br95/Aug/6/murayama.htm   (287 words)

  
 Tomiichi Murayama
The president's news conference with Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of Japan in Halifax, Canada.
The President's news conference with Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of Japan.
The President's news conference with Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of Japan in Naples, Italy.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0834473.html   (310 words)

  
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The latest controversy began when Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said in Parliament on Thursday that the 1910 Japan-Korea treaty of annexation had been signed in a legally valid way.
Murayama had appeared to be one of the few Japanese politicians genuinely remorseful for militarism.
Murayama with even harser language, blasting "the outbursts of the Japanese Prime Minister" in an article Monday in the Communist Party newspaper.
www.dpg.devry.edu /~akim/sck/jp.htm   (589 words)

  
 Pacific Venture...program origins...
Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's statement on 31 August 1994, quoted elsewhere on our pages here, paved the way for a ten-year 100-billion yen Japanese "Peace, Friendship and Exchange Initiative" to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
In August 1995, then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, expressed, in his statement approved by the Cabinet, the feeling of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for the tremendous damage and suffering caused by Japan's wartime action to the people of many countries.
Time was to prove, however, a number of people still felt that these statements were not sufficient to slake the thirst of ex-prisoners and the Western press for some tangible sign that the Japanese were prepared to accept full responsibility for what had occurred fifty and more years ago.
www.pvjapan.org.uk /pv-origins.htm   (267 words)

  
 Murayama, Tomiichi on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Clinton and Murayama will downplay trade frictions at meeting.
Murayama to postpone parliamentary mission to N. Korea
Tsujimoto 7 19 0422 Ex premier Murayama questioned over Tsujimoto fraud case
www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MurayamaT1.asp   (317 words)

  
 In apologizing, Japan makes known it has said sorry before
Kaoru Okano, a senior political scientist and professor emeritus at Meiji University, noted that Koizumi was using the same language as the August 15, 1995 statement by then-prime minister Tomiichi Murayama.
Murayama read out the statement in Tokyo on August 15, 1995 after it was approved by the cabinet.
The Murayama statement has been used as a bedrock for future statements on Japan's remorse over the war.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=40736   (705 words)

  
 A Questionnaire for Prime Minister Murayama: Is Crisis Management in the Far East Adequate?
When the U.S.-North Korea accord was concluded in October last year, the Murayama administration immediately expressed its support for the accord, and reaffirmed this at the summit meeting of Murayama, Clinton, and Kim at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] conference.
The Murayama cabinet should clarify the revenue source issue through discussion at the Budget Committee and strive to reach a consensus on the matter.
Now that Prime Minister Murayama has made a commitment at the APEC summit and at the Japan-U.S. summit in Washington to help construct light-water reactors, it is useless to discuss the the rights and wrongs of the matter.
www.fas.org /news/japan/eas95044.htm   (6774 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
For several days afterwards, it was not certain that Murayama could marshal his Socialists and their Sakigake partners behind Hashimoto.
Murayama enjoyed a brief political honeymoon after his rise to power in mid-1994.
The Murayama administration might be likened to the quiet second movement.
www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/96/0119/nat1.html   (1991 words)

  
 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The: GROUP OF SEVEN ECONOMIC SUMMIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Clinton, in a news conference after his 90-minute meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, stressed his resolve to slap punitive tariffs on 13 models of Japanese luxury cars on June 28 if Japan fails to promise to further open its markets to U.S. autos and auto parts.
Murayama said firmly that he had asked Clinton to drop the threat of trade sanctions "since they violate the rules and the spirit" of global trading rules.
Administration officials said Clinton also pressed Murayama to speed resolution of another divisive commercial dispute, Federal Express Corp.'s claim that the Japanese are violating a U.S.-Japan aviation agreement by not allowing the cargo carrier to fly between Japan and its new Philippines hub.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19950616/ai_n10199997   (662 words)

  
 SDPJ
The SDPJ's fortunes changed in June 1994, when it joined with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to form a ruling coalition, bringing SDPJ leader Tomiichi Murayama to the premiership the nation's first socialist leader in 44 years.
Murayama's stint as premier ended in January 1996 and the SDPJ's coalition with the LDP lasted until June 1998.
SDPJ leader Tomiichi Murayama was appointed prime minister in June 1994, serving until January 1996, when LDP President Ryutaro Hashimoto took the reins of the coalition government.
mcel.pacificu.edu /as/students/Jpolitics/SDPJ.html   (547 words)

  
 Action ensures continuation of U.S. bases in Okinawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
TOKYO -- After waiting fruitlessly for two months for a recalcitrant governor to cooperate, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Tuesday launched a legal process to compel landowners to renew leases on their property in Okinawa for use as American military bases.
Ota complained that Murayama's government was acting "without any debate on how forcing the leases is related to constitutional guarantees of the right to hold personal assets."
The Murayama government already has supported U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry's insistence that the total number of U.S. troops in Japan not be reduced.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/11/22/japan.html   (421 words)

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