Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the party and particularly Miki, its chief, should gain from Tanaka's arrest. With the Tanaka faction in disarray, Miki has eliminated his most serious rival within the party. Miki has been widely accused-with some justification-by his L.D.P. colleagues of lackluster leadership, and he could yet face a serious challenge before the election campaign. But his once sagging popularity is on the rise, and the Japanese, still no boat rockers despite their glee over Tanaka's fall, do not seem to be in a mood to turn in large numbers to any of the opposition...
...spartan cell is no different from that of any ordinary inmate at the Tokyo House of Detention-a 6-ft. by 9-ft. concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges...
...Tanaka's success was built on what the Japanese call kinken-money power, meaning jobs, contracts and very often raw cash liberally applied to advance political aims. Money has always played a key role in Japanese politics; Tanaka, a horse trader's son who lacked both the prestigious education and family connections usually necessary for a big-time political career, needed it more than most. But when, in the past few years, a recession at home and the example of Watergate abroad made the Japanese more sensitive to the private morals of their public leaders, Tanaka...
...native of a sleepy town in Niigata prefecture, Kaku-san went to Tokyo at the age of 15 with only a grade school education and less than $3 in his pocket. By the time he was 19, the cocky, hardworking Tanaka owned a contracting business. During World War II, his firm was big enough to handle a $20 million contract for the Japanese army in Korea. In 1947 he became a member of the Diet by bankrolling his way through a lower house election...
...next year, Tanaka made his first trip to the Tokyo House of Detention; acquitted of the bribery charges against him, he soon resumed his rise-to Postal Minister, Finance Minister, and, at 54, the youngest Prime Minister in postwar Japanese history. By the reckoning of the Tokyo economic daily Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Tanaka spent no less than $34 million in 1972 in the form of loans and cash gifts to fellow members of the Liberal Democratic Party to secure his selection as party president-and hence automatically as Prime Minister...