Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan also took part but later moved to the Democratic Party of Japan.

[citation needed] After the 1993 general election, Sakigake joined a Cabinet led by Morihiro Hosokawa.

[citation needed] Its popularity heavily declined after that, and by 2001, the party had no seats in either the Lower or Upper House.

It changed its name to Midori no kaigi [es; ja], the Environmental Green Political Assembly, which, because it won no seats in the 2004 Parliamentary elections, dissolved itself on 31 October 2004.

[citation needed] The party gained its followers mainly from white collar bureaucrats and ecologists.