page_title: Kiichi Miyazawa
section_title: Prime minister
hierarchical_section_title: Kiichi Miyazawa / Prime minister
caption_attribution_description: English: President William J. Clinton with Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in the Garden of Iikura House, 07/06/1993
context_page_description: Kiichi Miyazawa was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993. He was a member of the National Diet of Japan for over 50 years.
context_section_description: Miyazawa became Prime Minister on 5 November 1991 backed by his faction. Miyazawa gained brief fame in the United States when President George H. W. Bush vomited in his lap and fainted during a state dinner on 8 January 1992.
  His government passed a law allowing Japan to send its forces overseas for peacekeeping missions as well as negotiating a trade agreement with the United States. It also introduced financial reforms to address the growing economic malaise in Japan in the 1990s. Miyazawa resigned in 1993 after losing a vote of no confidence marking an end to 38 years of Liberal Democratic Party government. The reason for the vote was a scandal involving Fumio Abe, a member of Miyazawa's faction. The Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in June 1994.
caption: with Bill Clinton (at the Garden of Iikura Guest House on 6 July 1993)
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