Word: aoki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister clung to his job until a weekend news story reported that Ihei Aoki, his right-hand man, had received a 50 million-yen ($347,222) loan from the Recruit Co. two years ago that apparently found its way into the Takeshita campaign chest. The disclosure flatly contradicted the version of events that Takeshita had laid out before the Japanese Diet in early April. Two days after the Aoki story broke, Takeshita came to the conclusion that he could not keep his job; public disapproval was so strong that his government's popularity rating had plummeted to a mortifying...
...Prime Minister's attempt to invest his disgrace with honor was overshadowed only a few hours later by the news -- long anticipated by many Japanese -- that one of the key players had committed suicide. Aoki, 58, Takeshita's closest political aide for 30 years, slashed his wrist, neck and foot with a razor blade, then hanged himself with a necktie. As the man who had handled Takeshita's political finances, some newspaper commentators speculated, Aoki may have taken his life to shield the Prime Minister from possible criminal prosecution. But Aoki may simply have been following a long- standing Japanese...
...million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury hotel in Chicago's Riverfront Park Development and a 525-room hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Aoki America Construction is building about 1,000 homes in Raleigh, N.C., in a joint venture with a local investor group...
Shintaido was created by Karate master Hiroyuki Aoki in the early 1960's. According to members of the club, Aoki wanted to develop a martial art that reflected our time...
Given the ingenuity America seems to inspire in its immigrants, the newcomers may give Aoki stiff competition. How long can it be before Benihana is joined by chains with names such as Tacorama, the Piteria, Dim-summery and even Tofusion...