Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some team members, like Martin and Tod Tanaka, played on regular varsity teams in high school. Others, such as Argentieri and Nitzkowski, gained experience on beaches and in gym classes...
...largely through the efforts of Argentieri that the team exists from week to week. "If it wasn't for him," says Tanaka, "I don't think there'd be volleyball at Harvard." Little things like buying balls, arranging for court time, and setting up a schedule take time and energy...
...Park, emerging from behind a bullet-proof shield, went on with his speech. Afterward there was a great anti-Japanese uproar, and, on September 9, 32 patriots lopped off fingers publicly in Seoul with meat cleavers and sent them wrapped in a Korean flag to then Japanese premier Kakuei Tanaka. Newsmen soon discovered however that those "patriots" were convicts who had been released from jail to perform this act. The government had paid them from $125 to $375 per finger (Newsweek...
Succeeding Kakuei Tanaka in 1974, Miki had earned his colleagues' enmity by demanding a full, open investigation of the Lockheed scandal, even though it meant exposing the corruption of leading L.D.P. members. He was also widely blamed for the party's setback in last month's elections for the Diet's 511-seat lower house, in which L.D.P. strength dropped to 249 representatives-a loss of 16 (TIME, Dec. 20). In order to continue governing, the L.D.P. has had to co-opt a dozen conservative representatives who ran as independents in the election with Liberal Democratic...
...election time, lavish flows of corporate cash fueled the L.D.P. campaigns. Frequent scandals were quickly buried, and in the heady atmosphere of growth, few cared. But all that has changed since 1974, when Miki stepped in as the L.D.P.'s compromise choice to replace disgraced Premier Tanaka. The L.D.P.'s decline may be hard to reverse. Says one high Miki aide: "I would not rule out a breakup of the party. We're in for a period of basic political realignment in Japan...