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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 was a Japanese politician and prime minister who resigned in 1974 amid a bribery scandal involving Lockheed Aircraft. He was also the father of Tanaka Makiko, Japan's first female foreign minister.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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,...
- James Sterngold
Dec 16, 1993 · In 1971 and 1972, he was Minister of International Trade and Industry. In 1972, Mr. Tanaka was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, which was then in power, and was designated Prime...
Feb 7, 2022 · Kakuei Tanaka was born in Futada Village of Kariwa-gun (current Kashiwazaki City) of Niigata Prefecture on 4 May 1918. Due to the failure of his father’s business, Tanaka started working at the age of 15 at construction jobs, while going to school at night. Download chapter PDF.
- Daisuke Akimoto
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...
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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.
