Former Komeito chief Ishida dies at 76

Former Komeito chief Ishida dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Former Komeito party chairman Koshiro Ishida, who helped establish a coalition government in 1993 which put a temporary end to the Liberal Democratic Party's nearly four-decade monopoly on power, died of pulmonary fibrosis at a hospital in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 18, his family said. He was 76.

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