Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masayoshi Ohira, 70, had died of a heart attack only ten days before the elections. The party, moreover, had been declining in popularity. There had been widespread disenchantment with its ceaseless factional disputes and with the kind of corruption that led to the 1976 indictment of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the Lockheed bribery scandal. Opposition leaders talked confidently of winning enough seats to force the Liberal Democrats into a coalition government...