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...succeed Eisaku Sato as Japan's Premier? The question is crucial because, in the election scheduled for next week within the powerful Liberal Democratic Party, whose president invariably becomes the next Premier, money had already begun to talk -and sometimes shriek. After Sato resigned with a farewell blast at the press-"I hate biased newspapers" -Japanese last week were counting not only the merits of the rival candidates but also the amounts of hard cash that they command...
Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, a financial expert who is closely aligned with Sato, reportedly went into the contest with the largest gunshikin, or war chest, amounting to about 1 billion yen ($3,077,000), thanks in part to the help of the domestic oil industry. Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a roughhewn construction millionaire, has a fund reputed to total about...
...China visit. Mending fences in Tokyo, he had generously apologized for last year's shokku when the Japanese were not told of President Nixon's impending visit to the Chinese capital. "We failed to anticipate the extent of Japanese reaction," he explained. He met with Premier Eisaku Sato-who later in the week announced his expected retirement (TIME, June 19). Kissinger also talked with 85 distinguished Japanese ranging from government officials and opposition politicians to businessmen, intellectuals and journalists. He reiterated the reasons for Nixon's new China policy, and he assured the Japanese that...
...recent controversies over domestic priorities and Japan's U.S.-oriented foreign policy have notably decreased Sato's ability to determine his successor. Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, whom Sato had groomed as the heir apparent, cut short a trip to Seoul scheduled for this week in order to be on hand for Sato's announcement. It will signal what promises to be a struggle for the succession among Fukuda and three rivals: Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a construction millionaire who is the main threat to Fukuda's hopes, and two former Foreign Ministers, Masayoshi Ohira and Takeo...
...medical profession cooperated fully with law enforcement agencies, taking the attitude that addiction is not merely a personal medical problem but an offense against society. Says Tokyo Narcotics Agent Hiromasa Sato: "Addicts found no alternative but to capitulate, and eventually submitted to cold turkey. Sayonara...