Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ohira's chief rivals fought to unseat him with a passion fueled by personal enmity and ideological distaste for his alliance with Kakuei Tanaka, the former prime minister unseated after the press revealed the Lockheed airplane company's extensive bribery of government officials to gain contracts. Ohira owes much of his factional strength to Tanaka, who threw his supporters behind Ohira after being indicted in 1973. The bribery charges prohibit Tanaka from playing an active role in the LDP, but he can still play kingmaker, at least until his trial...
...curious parallel, during his Japan visit last October, Teng insisted on visiting disgraced former Premier Kakuei Tanaka. architect of Japan's 1972 normalization of relations with China. Tanaka had resigned from office in 1974 under pressure for allegedly having taken $2 million in bribes...
...Japan's parliamentary government since it was formed in 1955, always picked its leader, who automatically becomes Premier, in a caucus of L.D.P. members in the Diet. In a party composed of strong and combative factions, this led to open vote buying, bribery and scandal. With former Premier Kakuei Tanaka now on trial in the Lockheed influence-peddling scandal, the L.D.P. decided to try to clean up its image as a party of feuding bosses and "black mist" (bribe money) by choosing their leader this time in a kind of national primary in which all 1.5 million party members...
...third factor in Ohira's election may have been the support he received from former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, currently on trial for taking bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Although Tanaka was forced to step down, he still controls a sizeable faction of supporters, Reischauer said, adding he doubts Ohira would have won if Tanaka had swung his support to Fukuda...
...almost continuous negotiation with its bankers to arrange credit. The company's reputation was almost ruined by disclosure that up to $38 million in questionable foreign payments was made to spur sales of its aircraft; the scandal involved Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan, among others. To top it all, Lockheed's effort to re-establish itself as a principal supplier of commercial aircraft has been a disaster...