Word: hiyama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign exchange-control law, a relatively minor offense carrying a prison sentence of up to three years and fines of up to $1,000. But the case will revolve around allegations that Tanaka received $1.7 million in illicit Lockheed money on four occasions in 1973-74 from Hiro Hiyama, then head of the Marubeni Corp., which was Lockheed's sales agent in Japan...
...case since February, when U.S. Senate probers examining corporate practices abroad disclosed that $12.6 million in bribes had been paid to Japanese officials. In a series of arrests beginning June 2, charges had been brought against 15 other Japanese, most of them businessmen, including top corporate leaders like Hiyama as well as smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached the top echelon of Japanese politics, a level of power and privilege that most Japanese had cynically felt was above prosecution. Said Seiichi...
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