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...public funeral for former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in June of this year, a right-wing extremist slipped through the lines and punched Prime Minister Takeo Miki in the face, knocking him down. That prompted formation of a new security force modeled on the U.S. Secret Service and made up of crack recruits trained in judo, marksmanship and detection of movement within a 90 vision field. The greatest threat of violence in recent years has come from new-left radicals, some 6,000 of whom have vowed to stop Emperor Hirohito from boarding his plane this week for a state...
Back in the White House, Ford shifted his attention from West to East and started patching up relations with Japan, which had been shaken by the U.S. rapprochement with mainland China and the Communist victory in Viet Nam. Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki made it clear that Japan wants a strong and continuing American presence in the Far East, and the two leaders also reaffirmed their view that the independence of South Korea is "necessary for peace and security in East Asia, including Japan...
...three-page typewritten memo out of a window, threatening to blow up the building unless seven cronies jailed in Japan were released. Malaysian officials quickly rejected the use of force. The lives of the hostages, announced Prime Minister Abdul Razak, were of the "greatest importance." Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki, on a state visit to Washington, agreed. Awakened just after 2 a.m. in his suite at Blair House, he quickly overruled reluctant officials in Tokyo and instructed them to fly the seven prisoners to Kuala Lumpur aboard a Japan Air Lines...
...Japanese definition of "recession"-anything less than 10% annual growth-is now old-hat. Japan is suffering from an unmistakable, deliberately engineered recession, the first step in what Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda calls a "long and traumatic" transition "to an era of low, stabilized growth...
...resume that post by former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka -with whom Fukuda, to put it mildly, did not get along-when the oil crisis broke in late 1973. When financial scandals forced Tanaka to step down last December, the post of Prime Minister fell to the little-known Takeo Miki, who, lacking a strong background in economics, has pretty much turned over financial matters to Fukuda...