Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...Tanaka's Communist and Socialist opposition charged that the Emperor was being made a political tool of the government in power in violation of the constitution. Within Tanaka's own party, there was evidently trouble from former Premier Eisaku Sato. Sato reportedly had thought that he. rather than Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, an old rival, should be accorded the honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household...
Hovering in the twilight of life at the age of 79, Mao Tse-tung seems to be becoming ever more Confucian. Recent pictures of him receiving visitors in his book-lined study indicate that he spends much of of his time there, and he gave visiting Japanese Premier Tanaka several volumes of Confucianist commentaries on Ch'u poetry (the historical state of Ch'u is Mao's birthplace). China watchers believe that they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian...
Though Tokyo and Peking have recently exchanged ambassadors, the Japanese are discovering that it is not so easy to switch alliances. Take air travel, for instance. Premier Tanaka wants to conclude an aviation agreement with the mainland, but Peking has indicated that he can have no such agreement unless Japan curtails air ties with Taiwan. A solution will not be easy. Besides being lucrative (37 Japan Air Lines flights a week, as well as 21 China Airlines flights), the Taiwan connection is backed by many members of Tanaka's own Liberal Democratic Party. Already angered by the cutting...
That was more of an advance than the Administration had expected when Kissinger set out on his tour, which included talks with Communist leaders in Hanoi, conversations with Premier Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Peking, and a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Delighted by what he called the decision "to accelerate the normalization of relations" between the U.S. and China, Kissinger said the U.S. representative to Peking will be named within a month. Although he will not have the rank of ambassador, Kissinger indicated that the importance Washington places...