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Masayoshi Ohira (大平 正芳 Ohira Masayoshi March 12, 1910– June 12, 1980) was a Japanese politician and the 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan from December 7, 1978 to June 12, 1980.He was born in Kagawa prefecture. Late in 1978, Ohira was elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and on December 7 he was appointed Prime Minister, succeeding Takeo Fukuda. He was the first, and so far only, Christian to hold this office. In the general election of 1979, the LDP narrowly failed to win an outright majority, but enough independent members of the Diet joined the party to enable Ohira to remain in office, and he was duly reappointed on November 9November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. Events 694 Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems, and sentences all Jews to slavery. 1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicates of that year. In May, 1980, however, his government collapsed in a vote of no confidence in the Diet, in which opponents (led by Fukuda) from within his own Liberal Democratic Party abstained. He died of a massive heart attack during the election campaign that followed, and was succeeded by Zenko SuzukiZenko Suzuki ( Suzuki Zenko January 11, 1911 July 19, 2004) was a Japanese politician and the 70th Prime Minister of Japan from July 17, 1980 to November 27, 1982. He was appointed Prime Minister following the sudden death of Masayoshi Ohira, who died of, who led the LDP to its greatest victory in fifteen years, capitalizing on the sympathy vote generated by Ohira's death.
Ohira, Masayoshi
Ohira, Masayoshi
Ohira, Masayoshi
