Seiichi Tagawa, a former home affairs minister and head of the now-defunct New Liberal Club, died Friday of old age at a nursing home in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, his family said. He was 91.
In 1976, Tagawa, along with other lawmakers including Yohei Kono, left the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and formed the New Liberal Club.
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