Word: kakuei
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...Democratic Party, but for the favor of the five men who run the five major political machines within the party. Each machine has its own leader, its own views and its own funds. Feuding is chronic. Nakasone won only after he had got the nod from former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who remains the party's mightiest power-broker even though he is now on trial for accepting $2 million in bribes...
Nakasone is not only an opportunist but a stooge for former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, as shown by his appointment of seven members of the Tanaka faction to his Cabinet posts. I wish Tanaka would retire and write his memoirs, as your President Nixon...
...ever, a matter of personal popularity. Instead, victory requires the support of powerful backroom leaders who personally control significant factions in the party's parliamentary group. Nakasone's candidacy was supported by the two most prominent factional chieftains in the Diet: Suzuki and former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, 64, who retains his influence in the L.D.P. despite the fact that he faces a court verdict next year on charges related to the 1975 Lockheed bribery scandal...
...Agency. Two weeks ago Nakasone publicly committed his faction of the party to support Suzuki's reelection. Japanese observers speculate that Nakasone knew in advance that Suzuki was resigning and announced his support mainly to help win the blessing of Suzuki's major backer, former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...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...