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Despite his troubles, Tanaka not only kept his Diet seat but remained leader of the about faction within the LDP. He can be disarmingly diffident about his influence. "When one is engaged in the same business as long as I have, one knows nearly everything about it," he once said. "One could even hold sway over our party's presidential election by using the telephone and nothing else." Indeed, selection has done just that: he played a crucial role in the selection of his three successors, including Nakasone. Tanaka has retained control of his party fiefdom by dint...
Perhaps. Yet it is widely assumed in Japan that the verdict will go against Tanaka. If he is found guilty, he will appeal, a process that could last ten years...
Even if he is declared innocent, he is not likely to win back his old job. In a poll conducted last February, 67% of those surveyed labeled their former leader a liar. Meanwhile, Tanaka is rarely seen in public. He just continues padding between house and office, listening to visitors, dispensing favors and wielding power...
...been over for nearly four decades, but the image of the swaggering Japanese conquerors who occupied and on occasion brutalized neighboring countries under the imperialistic banner of the "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" remains vivid. As recently as 1974, the visit of former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to Indonesia incited bloody street riots in the capital city of Jakarta. The Japanese government's proposals last year to gloss over the country's actions during World War II (among other things, officials wanted to change school textbooks to describe Japan's 1937 invasion of China...
...contrast to the hostility shown Tanaka in 1974, Nakasone's reception in Indonesia was warm. Apparently confident that Nakasone will not lead his nation on an expansionist path, President Suharto did not even raise the question of Japan's recent military buildup. In Manila, Nakasone expressed his deep regret to President Marcos over Japan's wartime depredations in the islands. According to Nakasone, Marcos was sufficiently moved by the gesture to declare that "the era of stability has opened in Asia." In the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Nakasone firmly rejected the notion of any future military...