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Article: Kakuei Tanaka - man of tangible power.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
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KAKUEI Tanaka, Japan's best known political kingmaker, served as Japan's Sori-Daijin (Prime Minister) during 1972-74. He was the youngest of Japan's postwar politicians to serve as premier and remains in contemporary politics as the country's most dominant, persuasive and influential leader since the end of the American Occupation.
Most political commentators remember Tanaka as a brilliant manager of politics and people. He was a man who rose to personify the years in which he held sway; an unusual trait in any Japanese era. The phrase Tanaka no seiji (Tanaka politics) had to be invented to represent his style and philosophy.
In simple summary, Tanaka had a ...