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...unseat him. But this supremely independent descendant of feudal lords does as he pleases. He reportedly told his eel-and-sake companions that he wanted more freedom to move around. Some Japanese thought him irresponsible for leaving so abruptly. "He's stepping down in the middle of things," said Tamotsu Dendo, 41, a piano tuner. But others praised Hosokawa for not succumbing to the obsessive desire to cling to high office. "His manner of retreat was refreshing," says senior Diet member Kozo Watanabe...
...trouble began last January, when Allen received an honorarium from a Japanese magazine, Shufu-no-Tomo (Housewives' Friend), for an interview with Nancy Reagan. He helped arrange the interview as a favor to Chizuko Takase, the wife of his longtime Japanese business associate, Tamotsu Takase. But he says the honorarium was unexpected. Allen insists he intended to turn the payment over to the Treasury Department but simply forgot. When $1,000 in cash was discovered in his safe last September, the FBI was called in and an investigation begun...
Allen's trouble began last January, when he was approached by Chizuko Takase. The wife of Allen's longtime Japanese friend, Business Consultant Tamotsu Takase, she asked him to set up an interview with Nancy Reagan for a Japanese women's magazine, Shufu-no-Tomo (Housewives' Friend). He agreed, and on Jan. 21 a reporter and an editor, along with Allen and Mrs. Takase, met with the First Lady for about 15 minutes in the White House. The group mostly exchanged pleasantries, since nearly all the questions had been submitted beforehand and answers were provided after...
...flap has focused attention on Allen's past ties with Tamotsu Takase. In October 1980, Allen was forced to resign as a campaign adviser to Reagan. Reason: charges made by the Wall Street Journal that Allen, while serving as a member of the President's Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy in 1970, had leaked confidential decisions to Takase, who has a reputation in Japan as a political operator. Allen was reinstated after the election when Reagan's advisers cleared him of the accusations...
...Those monkeys were like angels," recalls Tamotsu Ueda, former mayor of Oita, Japan. It was an April day in 1958, and Emperor Hirohito himself had come with his Empress to visit Mount Takasaki Natural Monkey Park. When the monarch set foot in the park, some 500 monkeys, as if on cue, spilled out of the woods to welcome him. One affable creature even jumped up on the Empress's shoulder...