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Other potential successors to Takeshita include former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, 84; ex-Deputy Prime Minister Shin Kanemaru, 74; Masaharu Gotoda, 74, who served as key aide to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; and Michita Sakata, 72, speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Prime Minister's scheme appeared to have collapsed early in May, when House Speaker Michita Sakata attached a rider to a court-ordered reapportionment bill requiring a waiting period that effectively postponed lower-house elections for 30 days. The delay prevented Nakasone from dissolving the lower house in time to call new parliamentary elections...
...less than 1% of its G.N.P. on defense for its 261,400-man self-defense force, relying on the American nuclear umbrella and bases in the Pacific. "Security for Japan up to now has been like sunshine and water. When there is plenty, people take it for granted," said Michita Sakata, Director-General of the Japanese Defense Agency. "We want to enhance the credibility of our existing security arrangements, but Japan must be defended by the Japanese themselves...
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