Word: takato
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Like all good populists, Tanaka keeps campaigning, performing in his glass cage and pressing the flesh with fans. In March, more than 800 people came out to Takato, a town in the Japan Alps of 7,300, to see him. "They say I'm a dictator," he said, drawing laughter and applause from the adoring crowd, which listened for three hours as he railed against the prefectural legislators, the $13 million of debt the Nagano government has piled up, the dam projects and his attempts to hire more teachers and provide more services for the handicapped. Then he told...
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