Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka pledged the gift last summer on his visit to the United States. It was part of a 10 million package he distributed in $1-million chunks to American universities...
...Tanaka and Nixon...
Gifts like that to Harvard have been received by nine other universities as part of a $10-million package announced this summer by Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka and President Nixon...
Surprisingly, the government has thus far shied away from any really stringent controls. Critics say that Tanaka has spent more time defending his past record than giving his confused people any clear idea of where he intends to take them. Japan has not even taken the sort of voluntary measures adopted in Western Europe or the U.S., like Sunday-driving bans and weekend closing of gas stations...
Late last month, Tanaka appointed Takeo Fukuda, his old rival for the Liberal Democratic leadership, to head the powerful finance ministry. Fukuda, an apostle of fiscal orthodoxy, has so far done little to check the feeling of governmental drift. Although his appointment was widely praised by business leaders, it has failed to quell intraparty squabbling. "All they seem to care about is how it will affect the Upper House elections in July," said one Western diplomat last week...