Word: tamotsu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...