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The Shinshinto (新進党, "New Frontier Party") is a modern Japanese political party. It was founded in 1994 by former prime minister Kaifu Toshiki, and immediately became one of the members of the ruling anti-LDP coalition led by Hosokawa Morihiro. In 1996, former coalition leader Hata Tsutomu took over.

The party was dissolved in 1997, and its remnants collated into several tiny parties, including the Liberal Party, Reform Club, New Peace Party, and New Fraternity Party. These parties eventually all merged into the liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

This party was basically on the left-wing and a traditional liberal party. The party, as said above, is now defunct. Most of its former members had joined the Liberal Party (1998), which in turn joined the DPJ.

See also

• Timeline of liberal parties in Japan