Kakuei Tanaka, Takeo Fukuda, and Yasuhiro Nakasone. Scandals and the burst of the Japanese asset price bubble led to the LDP losing power in 1993 and 1994, and governing under a non-LDP prime minister from 1994 before regaining power in 1996. In 1999, the party led the LDP-Komeito coalition, which lasted for the next 26 years.