Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poor Butterfly. No less than Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is accused by his own daughter Makiko, 29, of knocking her about. Remembering life with Father as a very happy one, Makiko nonetheless goes on to count her bruises in the weekly magazine, Yomiuri. When she wanted to go to a U.S. high school, her father belted her. The same thing happened when she wanted to become an actress. Because Makiko "talks too much," Premier Tanaka even advised her husband, musclebound Naonori Tanaka: "Beat her up once in a while to retain your prestige as a man." While...
Japan's tough, wary Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was positively lyrical last week as he ended a four-day visit to Moscow. Addressing a farewell press conference, he declared: "Our relations with the Soviet Union can be compared with the smooth, calm flow of the Moscow River. The atmosphere of our talks was as sunny as the fine weather here this week." It was, of course, an exaggeration, but understandable in the circumstances. The atmosphere during the first three days of Tanaka's talks with Kremlin leaders had more closely resembled a squall on the Black...
...government involving recently reacquired Okinawa, where 4,840 men have been stationed in anticipation of approval by the Diet of a bill authorizing a new defense command on the island. But the Sapporo ruling, has put a new obstacle in the path of this legislation. Now Premier Kakuei Tanaka cannot withdraw the men without violating the obligations undertaken in the U.S.-Japan reversion agreement. And he cannot keep them there without arousing howls of protest from the Socialists and Communists in the Diet...
Japanese Ambassador Takesi Yashawa informed President Bok about the latest gift a month after Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka announced in Washington that the Japan Foundation would donate $10 million to American universities. Nine other colleges in addition to Harvard are recipients of these funds...
...Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded and carried out the bizarre plot in violation of Japanese sovereignty. Now Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka has bowed to public pressure and dramatized his country's displeasure by postponing until mid-October the annual ministerial meeting between the two countries. It had been scheduled for next week...