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Kakuei Tanaka (田中 角栄, Tanaka Kakuei, 4 May 1918 – 16 December 1993) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974. He served in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1990.
Tanaka Kakuei (born May 4, 1918, Kariwa, Niigata prefecture, Japan—died Dec. 16, 1993, Tokyo) was a politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and who subsequently became the central figure in a major political scandal. Tanaka was the only son of a bankrupt cattle dealer.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 28, 2016 · Did the US government use the Lockheed bribery scandal four decades ago as a means to get rid of Japan’s Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka?
May 18, 2018 · Tanaka Kakuei (1918-1993) was the most controversial of the post-World War II prime ministers of Japan. As the leader of the largest faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) he dominated Japanese politics for many years.
Dec 17, 1993 · Kakuei Tanaka, the legendary political shogun who was hailed for his dynamic leadership but despised as the architect of Japan’s corrupt machine politics, died of pneumonia Thursday. He was 75.
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Dec 16, 1993 · Mr. Tanaka was until his convicton Japan's most potent political figure by virtue of his role as leader of the most powerful faction in the dominant Liberal Democratic Party, a...
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Dec 17, 1993 · Kakuei Tanaka, a gravel-voiced politician who dominated Japanese politics for two decades, even after being convicted of accepting a multibillion-dollar bribe from the Lockheed Corporation,...
