Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunch, the serious work of the trip began when Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka pleaded with Ford to pay as much attention to Asian problems as he does to European affairs. Unmentioned, but undoubtedly on Tanaka's mind, was the shokku administered by former President Nixon in 1971, when he made his historic overture to China without first consulting Japan. Well-briefed on the sport dearest to Ford, Tanaka asked for cooperation between the two countries in "the spirit of team play, the value of which you learned through your glorious career in football...
According to The Boston Globe, spokesman for Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi also complained about the content of Cohen's remarks...
...horrified fascination, the men one by one raised carving knives and hacked off the little fingers of their left hands as a grisly sign of their anger against Japan. Wrapped in a blood-soaked flag, the severed pinkies were intended for the Japanese ambassador for transmission to Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Before delivery could be made, however, police rounded up the bloodied men and shipped them off to a hospital...
...Japanese by swiftly picking up an original invitation to Nixon to visit Tokyo some time after the November elections-the first visit there by a U.S. President. Ford also pocketed a diplomatic IOU by agreeing to hold talks late next month with Japan's politically embattled Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who feels he can score points at home by negotiating with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come to Washington when the United Nations General Assembly opens next month. The Chief Executive invited Greece...
...radical leftist. The fact that Moon had lived in Japan ignited lingering Korean hostility toward the Japanese; resentment became more pronounced when it was learned that a Japanese woman had helped Moon obtain the fraudulent passport. In an attempt to patch up deteriorating Korean-Japanese relations, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka announced that he would attend, Mrs. Park's funeral early this week...