Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force One and totally changed the geopolitical shape of the world. This time the plane will be a Japan Air Lines jet carrying the leader of a country whose rivalry with China scarred Asia for the better part of the past century. The arrival of Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Peking, said China's Premier Chou En-lai last week, will mean "a new leaf in our history...
...charge of Japan's first major exercise in independent diplomacy since the war is a wheeling-dealing real estate speculator and career politician who has almost no experience in international diplomacy. In the 15 years since hard-driving Kakuei Tanaka first reached Cabinet-level posts in Tokyo, he has been abroad only eight times, and then only to Korea, the U.S. and Western Europe. His one previous trip to China came in 1938, when he was shipped off to Manchuria as a young Imperial Army draftee. Tanaka's military career ended several months later when he contracted pneumonia...
Lack of experience-or of anything else-has never slowed down Kakuei Tanaka. A fast-talking, 160-lb. dynamo popularly known as "the Computerized Bulldozer," he is Japan's youngest (54) postwar Premier and the first to come from outside the narrow university-bred elite that has produced almost all Japanese leaders since World War II. The son of a poor cattle dealer, Tanaka vaulted into the upper reaches of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after he had made millions in construction and land development. Traditional Japanese diplomats have been heard to grumble that their blunt-spoken new boss...
...monitor Japanese catches, but even now the U.S. observers will see only about 3,000 of the dead whales; the rest are processed on huge factory ships at sea. The Japanese-American agreement-unless it is revised following President Nixon's Hawaii talks with Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka-thus means little more than that Japan is willing to make a gesture to appease what Whaling Inspector Kineo Kegasawa calls America's "cry-boy environmentalists...
...Lately, because of American prodding and threats, Japan has been working to lower its more egregious barriers and increase its imports. The latest U.S. effort to speed that process was mounted last week by President Nixon himself. In Hawaii he met Japan's new Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka, for two days of summit talks, and a key subject was what to do about the gigantic and growing $2.2 billion deficit that the U.S. is now running in trade with Japan...