Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That grant was part of a $10-million package announced by Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka last summer. The Japanese government awarded the rest of the money in the package to nine other universities...
...When he was reported as favoring "new national leadership," Sumitro immediately denied that he had ever thought of calling for Suharto's replacement. But to political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit to Jakarta, Sumitro cracked heads with such vengeance (800 arrested and nine publications closed) that he seemed to be attempting to embarrass Suharto by exaggerating the extent of the opposition...
...dust settle before the heads roll," counsels a Javanese proverb. For several days following the disastrous rioting in the streets of Jakarta that accompanied the visit of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka (TIME, Jan. 28), the Indonesian government of General Suharto reacted hardly at all. Then, barely a week after the disturbances that had left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General...
Perfect Harmony. While riots flared through the city, Suharto gave a state dinner for Tanaka in the heavily guarded presidential palace. Declared the host: "This meeting and Your Excellency's presence within our midst... may facilitate Your Excellency's wish to become intimate with the current problems and issues of the Indonesian people, their feelings, their hopes." Tanaka answered by expressing his thanks for having been granted the opportunity to "witness at first hand [how] the great people of Indonesia have built a society of perfect harmony...
Taking no chances on the final day of the visit the Indonesians prudently whisked their honored guest to the airport by helicopter. Back home in Tokyo, Tanaka told a press conference that the Japanese must try "to erase the causes for such demonstrations," adding: "My greatest impression was that there was a need for a much greater cooperative effort by these countries...