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Masayoshi Ohira (大平 正芳 ''Ōhira Masayoshi'' March 12 , 1910 – June 12 , 1980 ) was a Japan ese Politician and the 68th and 69th Prime Minister Of Japan from December 7 , 1978 to June 12 , 1980 . He was born in Kagawa Prefecture and attended Hitotsubashi University . 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 second Christian to hold this office, the first having been Tetsu Katayama (1947-48). 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 9 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 Suzuki , who led the LDP to its greatest victory in fifteen years, capitalizing on the sympathy vote generated by Ohira's death. |
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