Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scarcely back from his visits to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, President Gerald Ford met in Washington last week with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who had spent the previous weekend in Britain with Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...with Miki's instinctive caution, means that there will probably be few changes of policy under the new Premier. Miki is known to be pro-American and a supporter of the Japanese-American Mutual Security Treaty. He is also a longtime advocate of closer ties between Peking and Tokyo, and played a major role last year in shifting Japan from a neutral to a pro-Arab stance in the Middle East. His major problem, of course, will be to curb Japan's inflation (at more than 20% annually, it is the worst in the industrial world...
...devastating chronicle of Tanaka's financial dealings through dummy cor porations, secret bank accounts, incomplete tax statements and the use of vast amounts of money to buy support within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). Tanaka clung to office just long enough to welcome President Ford to Tokyo. Five days after Ford's departure, Tanaka did what most Japanese expected of him. He said he was "solely to blame" for the political crisis engulfing Japan. "I feel pain that I cannot bear. That is why I have decided to submit my resignation...
...weeks after Richard Nixon resigned last August, the editors of Bungei-Shunju, a respected Tokyo-based monthly, decided to do a little Watergate-style digging into the shady financial dealings of their own chief executive. Largely as a result of those excavations, Premier Kakuei Tanaka was forced last week to resign...
...organized around the foreign ministry and other official news beats and can bar an aggressive reporter from press conferences. Beyond that, many major news organizations are in debt to banks that have close ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan since 1955. A number of Tokyo dailies have also built their offices on government land relinquished to them through important politicians...