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The Japan Renewal Party (also JRP; 新生党 Shinseitō) was a Japanese political party that existed in the early 1990s. It was founded in 1993 by 44 members of the Liberal Democratic Party led by Tsutomu Hata and Ichirō Ozawa. It was instrumental in ending the LDP’s 38 year dominance of Japanese politics.Both reformers Hata and Ozawa had been involved in a difficult leadership struggle within the former Takeshita faction of the LDP.