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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rules of modern politics, any Prime Minister whose popularity rating in the public opinion polls is approximately equal to his country's annual rate of inflation must surely be headed down the tube. But not Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, whose Liberal Democratic Party now appears certain to win this week's upper-house elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unsinkable Kaku-san | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...defeat or into a forced coalition with one of the minority parties. After all, Japan was, and is, suffering from the highest inflation rate (25%) of any major industrial country. At the same time, the Premier's support has plummeted from 60% in 1972 to 24% this month. Tanaka is perhaps the only democratic leader in the world who might conceivably be envious of Richard Nixon's popularity rating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unsinkable Kaku-san | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...opposition parties are understandably angry over the heavy spending of the L.D.P. under Tanaka's control. The leaders of other L.D.P. factions-including Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, Tanaka's most powerful rival-are angry too. They fear that, by controlling the purse strings, Tanaka is strengthening his support within the party at their expense. They are well aware that the huge campaign fund has helped Tanaka to field 29 candidates from his own faction of the party-as opposed to only 16 from Fukuda's wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unsinkable Kaku-san | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Last week both the opposition parties and the Japanese press condemned the Tanaka government for making education a political issue. Editorialized the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily: "Nobody in Japan is convinced that our educational system is perfect, but that is no reason for using the issue for electioneering: education should only be discussed calmly-after the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tanaka v. the Teachers | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...School established a chair in Japanese legal studies with an endowed professorship. One year later, the Japan Foundation--an organization sponsored by the Japanese government--announced it would donate $10 million to American universities, one-tenth of which was presented to Harvard by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka on January 16, 1974, Toyota joined with Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.--the manufacturer of Datsun cars and trucks--in giving the institute an additional million dollars aimed at construction of a new building near the Yenching Library. This was the largest donation ever made by a Japanese firm to an American university...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Japanese Chip In $3 Million | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

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