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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.
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Dec 28, 2016 · Forty years ago, Church was “the man who pulled the trigger” to unleash the Lockheed Scandal, which led to the biggest political upheaval in postwar Japan and the arrest of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
Dec 16, 1993 · In 1972, Mr. Tanaka was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, which was then in power, and was designated Prime Minister at plenary sessions of both houses of Parliament,...
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
The 64th and 65th Prime Minister. Born : May 4, 1918, Niigata Prefecture. Deceased : December 16, 1993. Tenure of office as Prime Minister. [1st tenure]. July 7, 1972 - December 22, 1972. 169 days. [2nd tenure]. December 22, 1972 - December 9, 1974.
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.
