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The Japanese General Election of 25 June 2000

2000; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1477-7053.00042

1477-7053

Takashi Inoguchi,

Social Policy and Reform Studies

The twentieth-fourth general election in Japan took Place on 25 June 2000, shortly after Yoshiro Mori had succeeded his predecessor, Keizo Obuchi, as interim prime minister. (Obuchi had died after being in a coma following a stroke.) He, in his turn, had succeeded Ryutaro Hashimoto to the prime ministership when Hashimoto had resigned after the government lost a considerable number of seats in the election for the upper house in 1998. Keizo Obuchi had managed to increase support for the government by passing two substantial sets of legislative measures to stimulate the economy in 1998 and 1999.