 The Hata-Ozawa faction formed the Renewal Party (JRP, "Shinseito").Masayoshi Takemura, who had been elected governor of Shiga prefecture with the joint support of the LDP and several opposition parties and was then serving in the House of Representatives in the LDP, along with other nine young and “progressive” LDP members also broke away from the LDP to start the New Party Harbinger ("Shinto Sakigake").Additionally, the Japan New Party (JNP, "Nihon Shinto"), the oldest of the new parties, was formed in May 1992 by Morihiro Hosokawa, formerly an upper house member from the Tanaka faction and governor (1983–91) of Kumamoto prefecture.