Word: kakuei
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...code word was still the same last week when U.S. Ambassador-at-Large David Kennedy and Kakuei Tanaka, head of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), met in Tokyo to initial an agreement severely restricting Japanese textile sales to the U.S. Exports of synthetic garments and cloth will be permitted to rise only 5% and exports of woolens only 1% annually for the next three years. Even that limit may not be reached, because the pact also contains strict item-by-item regulation of 18 specific categories of products; it allows the Japanese almost no freedom...
...scramble for power within his Liberal Democratic party, which dominates Japanese politics. Fukuda is so closely identified with Sato that political oddsmakers give him only about a 50-50 chance to succeed him as premier. So far, he has three contenders to face: Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei Tanaka, 53, a tough, brilliant self-made man, and two former foreign ministers, Takeo Miki, 64, who favors closer relations with Peking, and Masayoshi Ohira, 61, who has solid business support. Whoever wins will have a rocky time...
...Japanese rule. Now he may speed up the search for a successor and retire this fall. The most likely contenders: Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 66, who now finds himself handicapped by an overly close identification with Sato's policies, and Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei Tanaka, 53, a blunt-spoken self-made man who has strong party support even though he is regarded as somewhat "unpredictable" in Japanese financial circles...