Word: toshio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading candidate to succeed Ohira is former Trade Minister Toshio Komoto, 69, a sharp, urbane industrialist who made a fortune in shipping and who has support from the business sector. Komoto, however, is an unknown quantity as party leader and is opposed by Tanaka's faction for having supported an investigation of the former Prime Minister's links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some...