Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka
Kakuei tanaka 田中 角栄 or 田中 角榮 tanaka kakuei 4 may 1918 16 december 1993 was a japanese politician who served in the house of representatives from 1947 to 1990 and was prime minister of japan from 1972 to 1974.
Japanese prime minister tanaka. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and soon opened his own construction firm the. The former prime minister kakuei tanaka was found guilty in 1983 of accepting bribes then worth about 2 1 million to arrange the purchase of lockheed aircraft by all nippon airways. Tanaka distinguished himself in the russo japanese war and as a member of the japanese army stationed in manchuria in the early 1900s. Appointed minister of war in 1918 he was one of.
After a power struggle with takeo fukuda he became the most influential member of the ruling liberal democratic party from the mid 1960s until the mid 1980s. Tanaka was the only son of a bankrupt cattle dealer.