Morihiro Hosokawa

Morihiro Hosokawa
Morihiro Hosokawa
細川護熙
	Morihiro Hosokawa
Prime Minister of Japan
	In office; 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Monarch	Akihito
Preceded by	Kiichi Miyazawa
Succeeded by	Tsutomu Hata
Leader of the New Party
	In office; 22 May 1992 – 9 December 1994
Preceded by	party established
Succeeded by	party abolished
Member of the House of Representatives
	In office; 18 July 1993 – 7 May 1998
Succeeded by	Eiichi Iwashita
Constituency	(Old 1st district, Kumamoto Prefecture →) 1st district, Kumamoto Prefecture
Member of the House of Councillors
	In office; 26 July 1992 – 18 July 1993
Constituency	National
Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture
	In office; 11 February 1983 – 10 February 1991
Preceded by	Issei Sawada
Succeeded by	Joji Fukushima
Member of the House of Councillors
	In office; 4 July 1971 – 11 February 1983
Constituency	National (1971–77); Kumamoto (1977–83)
Personal details
Born	14 January 1938 (aged 87); Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Political party	Democratic Party (1998–2016)
Other political; affiliations	Liberal Democratic Party (1969–92); Japan New Party (1992–94); New Frontier Party (1994–97); From Five (1997–98); Good Governance Party (1998)
Spouse(s)	Kayoko Ueda (m. 1971)
Children	3 (including Morimitsu)
Alma mater	Sophia University

Morihiro Hosokawa (細川護煕code: ja is deprecated , Hosokawa Morihiro, born 14 January 1938) is a Japanese politician. He was the 79th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 August 1993 to 28 April 1994. He became known as the first non-Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government leader of Japan since 1955. He ran as a candidate for Governor of Tokyo as an independent supported by the Democratic Party of Japan in February 2014.^[1]

Morihiro Hosokawa Media

Hosokawa at the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 1993
Hosokawa with Boris Yeltsin, Hirohisa Fujii and Masayoshi Takemura in October 1993
Hosokawa with Bill Clinton at APEC Summit in November 1993
Hosokawa with the Ministers of the Hosokawa Government (at the garden of the Prime Minister's Official Residence on 9 August 1993)
Hosokawa campaigning (at Takadanobaba Station on February 7, 2014)