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Kakuei Tanaka, Former Prime Minister of Japan
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Kakuei Tanaka, 75, a former prime minister of Japan and the
so-called "Shady Shogun" who was the architect of a pervasive system
of money politics, died of pneumonia Thursday at a Tokyo hospital.
He had diabetes.
Mr. Tanaka served only two years as head of government before he
was forced to quit in disgrace in 1974, but he was a giant of postwar
Japanese politics.
He frequently was compared to his contemporary, Richard M.
Nixon. Both were tough-talking conservatives who rose to the top of
the political heap and fell amid scandal within months of one
another. Both made historic openings to ...
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