Liberal Democratic Party defaults after turmoil in Nagasaki 3rd Ward by-election. This is the first time that the party has lost by default in a national election since 1955.
Yaichi Tanigawa, then a member of the House of Representatives, resigned from his parliamentary seat after being indicted in connection with a faction's political funding party. The Liberal Democratic Party decided not to field a candidate as a result of continued confusion over the "main war" and "non-war" arguments.