Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nippon Airways to buy Lockheed passenger jets, despite having taken a prior option to purchase McDonnell-Douglas aircraft. In a second case, the Japanese reversed plans to build their own antisubmarine patrol planes, and instead decided to study the Lockheed P-3C Orion. If the cash pocketed by Tanaka can be tied to these decisions, Tanaka will almost surely be charged with bribery, a serious offense opening him to a maximum prison sentence of 1 5 years...
...Tanaka's jailing came after five months of work by a team of Japanese prosecutors who have been investigating the case since February, when U.S. Senate probers examining corporate practices abroad disclosed that $12.6 million in bribes had been paid to Japanese officials. In a series of arrests beginning June 2, charges had been brought against 15 other Japanese, most of them businessmen, including top corporate leaders like Hiyama as well as smaller fry; several of them were allegedly involved in funneling Lockheed cash to government officials. But with Tanaka's arrest, the scandal finally reached...
...Tanaka case caused ripples in other countries touched by Lockheed cash. In Italy, where investigations into allegations that a former Premier, among others, received Lockheed money are at a standstill, pending resolution of the latest government crisis, editorials complained that "in our country, only the little fish get caught." In The Netherlands, where Tanaka's arrest also made headlines, a blue-ribbon investigating team is scheduled to make a report in two weeks on Lockheed wrongdoing...
...Clean. Disclosures about Lockheed bribes at the Church committee hearings in the Senate last winter galvanized many Japanese into feeling that wrongdoing in Japan could not simply be ignored. Then Takeo Miki, Tanaka's successor as Premier, promised to "get to the bottom of the affair." Though the pledge was dismissed by many in the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) as "pious hogwash," Miki's determination was genuine. In part, this was because Miki could only enhance his image as the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime...
Many L.D.P. Diet members besides Tanaka are believed to have received Lockheed cash, most of which apparently went to fund the party's 1974 parliamentary campaign. A series of arrests could badly damage the L.D.P. just when it is trying to refurbish its image in preparation for the national elections that must be held before the end of the year...