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- Dec. 27, 1993: Died:Kakulei Tanaka
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. KAKUEI TANAKA, 75, former Japanese Prime Minister; of
- pneumonia; in Tokyo. After he was elected to the Diet in 1947,
- Tanaka used his personal wealth to rise rapidly through the
- ranks, becoming at 54 the youngest Prime Minister of postwar
- Japan. His popular touch won him wide support--until the economy
- worsened under his leadership and the public became less tolerant
- of his "money politics." Suspicions of shady financial dealings
- forced his 1974 resignation. In 1983 Tanaka was sentenced to
- four years in prison for taking a $2 million bribe, though he
- never served a day in prison, and his corrupt legacy still shadows
- Japanese politics.
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- </article>
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