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With Tanaka reduced to caretaker status, L.D.P. leaders began the complex bargaining that will result in a consensus on a successor, possibly this week. Tanaka's own choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64. His chief rival is former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69, a sleepy-looking veteran politician who was runner-up to Tanaka in the party election of 1972. Although a conservative, Fukuda has long called for reform of Japan's system of "money power," and this may make him more palatable to the party leaders as a symbol of belated reform...
Treading Tenderly. Although Tanaka's fortunes are at their lowest ever, no one is willing to count him out. Last week he moved swiftly to stem a total collapse of his Cabinet by shifting one of his loyal followers, Masayoshi Ohira, 64, from Foreign Minister to Fukuda's post at Finance. He named two other well-known and respected L.D.P. veterans to the other vacant posts: Toshio Kimura, 65, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kichizo Hosoda, 62, to Hori's old job. From now on, however, the abrasive, aggressive Tanaka will have to tread much...
Masayoshi Ohira, LL.D., Foreign Minister of Japan...
...CENTO nations last week to Deputy Secretary Kenneth Rush. Kissinger also had had to postpone Capitol Hill appearances to testify on such matters as the upcoming defense budget, while foreign ministers of other nations who wanted to see him had to either take potluck-as Japan's Masayoshi Ohira did last week, and missed-or else postpone visits to Washington. Nonetheless, Kissinger was not out of touch with the State Department; since April 28, when he left Washington, 1,500 cables have passed between him and his staff at State, either through the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem...
...Socialist opposition charged that the Emperor was being made a political tool of the government in power in violation of the constitution. Within Tanaka's own party, there was evidently trouble from former Premier Eisaku Sato. Sato reportedly had thought that he. rather than Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, an old rival, should be accorded the honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household Agency, which manages Hirohito...