Word: fujisawa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Tetsu Katayama, 90, the only Japanese Socialist leader ever to become Prime Minister; in Fujisawa City, Japan. Katayama helped form Japan's Socialist Party in 1945, and was voted into office as Prime Minister two years later in the country's first postwar elections. A fair-minded idealist who championed laborers and tenant farmers, he proved an ineffectual leader when his campaign compromises with political factions of the coalition government sapped his authority. Nine months into his term, with his economic policies failing badly, he resigned, crying, "All I want is sleep, sleep!" and retired...