 The bill was passed in the House of Representatives with modifications on November 18, 1993.It was rejected, however, in the House of Councillors on January 22, 1994 in spite of the coalition parties’ majority in the House.On January 29, 1994, political reform bills which had been discussed in Japanese politics for six years were finally passed through both Houses of the Diet on the basis of last-minute agreements achieved a day before the end of the session between Yohei Kono, president of the LDP, and prime minister Hosokawa.