Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo House of Detention. There he was to undergo further questioning...
...Tanaka's arrest was the stunning climax of the long-brewing Lockheed scandal that has lapped at the highest levels in Italy and The Netherlands, as well as in Japan. "Operation Summit," as the Japanese dubbed the Tanaka arrest, was hailed with a chorus of banzais. On the floor of the Osaka Stock Exchange, recounted one Japanese broker, after a moment of stunned silence, "everybody began howling his head off." In Tokyo, after an early morning dip, stock prices jumped twelve points...
...Tanaka and his secretary Toshio Enomoto, 50, who was also arrested, were not charged with bribery but with violation of Japan's foreign exchange-control law, a relatively minor offense carrying a prison sentence of up to three years and fines of up to $1,000. But the case will revolve around allegations that Tanaka received $1.7 million in illicit Lockheed money on four occasions in 1973-74 from Hiro Hiyama, then head of the Marubeni Corp., which was Lockheed's sales agent in Japan...
...Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor Kakuei Tanaka after disclosures of large-scale corruption...
...much Miki tries to take his case to the public, he still has the faction leaders to contend with. After all, he benefited from sealed-room politics in 1974, when the L.D.P. bosses, rocked by scandal, and factionalism, turned to him as a compromise candidate to succeed the disgraced Tanaka. Now, too, compromise could be the key concept. One possible outcome of the entire affair: party leaders would agree to let Miki stay in office until the Lockheed investigation is concluded-but only if he agrees to step down as Premier before the general elections...