Word: nikkei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next year, Tanaka made his first trip to the Tokyo House of Detention; acquitted of the bribery charges against him, he soon resumed his rise-to Postal Minister, Finance Minister, and, at 54, the youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history. By the reckoning of the Tokyo economic daily Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Tanaka spent no less than $34 million in 1972 in the form of loans and cash gifts to fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party to secure his selection as party president-and hence automatically as Prime Minister...