Former Japan Socialist Party Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who led a coalition government with longtime rival the Liberal Democratic Party in the mid-1990s, died Friday morning in the city of Oita. He was 101.

Born on March 3, 1924, in Oita Prefecture, Murayama moved to Tokyo in 1938 but was later d

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