Heisei Kenkyūkai

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The Heisei Kenkyūkai ( Japanese 平 成 研究 会 , dt. "Heisei Research Council") is after the Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai and the Ikōkai the third largest faction within the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). It has been chaired by Wataru Takeshita since 2018 and is therefore usually referred to as the Takeshita faction ( 竹 下 派 , Takeshita-ha ). It includes 34 members of the LDP parliamentary group and 21 LDP MPs in the upper house.

The Heisei Kenkyūkai emerged from the Thursday Club ( 木 曜 ク ラ ブ , Mokuyō Kurabu ) of Susumu Nikaidō , the successor to the faction of Kakuei Tanaka, damaged by the Lockheed scandal . Noboru Takeshita and Shin Kanemaru founded the Sōseikai ( 創 政 会 ) as early as 1984, initially as a sub-group of the Tanaka faction and made it an independent faction. From 1987 it was called Keiseikai ( 経 世 会 ), the name was finally changed to Heisei Kenkyūkai in 1996. " Heisei " is the government motto of the current emperor Akihito , meaning the present. With Ryūtarō Hashimoto and Keizō Obuchi , the Heisei Kenkyūkai was the last LDP party leader and Prime Minister of Japan in 1995-2000 .

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