They ended nearly four decades of LDP rule in 1993 by bringing reformist Hosokawa Morihiro to power.

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Morihiro Aoki, 38, is a television company employee in Hiroshima.

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Such resentment may prompt more calls like that recently from a former Japanese prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa for American troops to leave Japan, even though the result would surely be a more open rivalry with China.

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