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...keep the issue from developing into a more serious political one. The Japanese fear that the auto confrontation will upset Prime Minister Suzuki's visit to Washington in early May. As an advance man for that visit and a conciliator on the auto problem, former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda traveled to Washington last week and met with President Reagan...
...effort to stop such corruption, revelations of which rocked the government of Takeo Miki in Japan and disgraced Prince Bernhard in The Netherlands, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act made it a criminal offense to pay bribes of any sort to foreign officials to secure or retain business abroad. Punishment could be a prison sentence of up to five years and fines of as much as $10,000 for individuals and $1 million for corporations. The legislation also set up accounting procedures designed to make it virtually impossible for companies to disguise such "sensitive payments" or to hide them elsewhere...
...recent Gallup survey commissioned by the Japanese government claims most American leaders consider Japan's emergence as a trade power a benefit and not a threat to U.S. production, Takeo Iguchi, Consul General of Japan, told about 40 people yesterday at a seminar sponsored by the University's Japan Institute...
...Socialists failed to reckon with anti-Ohira L.D.P. factions, led by former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Takeo Miki and former Defense Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The rebels had been demanding that Ohira, 70, step down. Even so, they were not expected to seriously split the party. After the vote, Fukuda insisted that he had warned his faction members against such a move. "It was a big miscalculation," he said. Later, however, he refused to rule out the possibility that he might bolt and form a new conservative party...
Both former prime ministers Takeo Fukuda and Takeo Miki have vilified Tanaka and the money politics he stands for, and they have extended their hatred to Ohira. Fukuda and Miki blame the Ohira-Tanaka alliance for depriving them of the premiership on several occasions. Miki also campaigns on a clean government plank, and has urged reforming the system of election for party president to estinguish the potential for bribery that Tanaka exploited so successfully. Tanaka in turn despises Miki as the man who jailed him in 1974 and fought to prosecute all offenders in the Lockheed case...