New Frontier Party

…the government, it joined the New Frontier Party (Shinshintō), a coalition of moderate political parties that disbanded in 1997. Many former members subsequently threw their support to the Democratic Party of Japan, which had been established in 1996 and became the leading opposition party.

…several opposition parties as the New Frontier Party, which dissolved in 1997.

…mover in organizing Shinshintō (New Frontier Party), a merger of nine political parties, which was formally inaugurated in December 1994. However, unrest within the party led a number of members to leave Shinshintō, and in 1998 Ozawa disbanded it. Later that year he formed the Liberal Party, which merged…