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KAKUEI TANAKA

On Aug. 14, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times featured one of the defining images of Junichiro Koizumi's premiership: the prime minister leaving Yasukuni Shrine after a controversial visit that reignited debates over Japan's wartime past and strained relations with its Asian neighbors.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Aug 3, 2026
Japan Times 2001: Koizumi visits Yasukuni early
Additionally, our archives feature more coverage on the Lockheed scandal and the creation of NHK.
The front page carries news of a former prime minister's arrest as the Lockheed scandal expands.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Jul 1, 2026
Japan Times 1976: Ex-Prime Minister Tanaka arrested
From Tanaka¡¯s dramatic arrest to the Akashi stampede, Japan confronted tragedy and accountability.
A front page announcement for Hideki Yukawa's Nobel Prize win in the fields of physics informs readers of Japan's first-ever Nobel laureate.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Nov 4, 2024
Japan Times 1949: Yukawa wins Nobel award
Along with Japan receiving its first Nobel Prize 75 years ago, a lengthy write-up on the man who sought to kill the emperor appeared on our front pages.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 24, 2024
Why Â鶹´«Ã½ mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
The funds can be used by the chief cabinet secretary with no explanation needed, fueling speculation of widespread misappropriation.
As the 1924 Exclusion Act came into effect in the United States, people in Japan were not happy. It would define American immigration policy for near three decades.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Jul 1, 2024
Japan Times 1924: Anti-America Day observed by all Japan
Two very different views of the United States from Japan, separated by 25 years and, more importantly, a war, define this month¡¯s look back at Japanese history.
JAPAN / Media
Jun 23, 2021
Takashi Tachibana, who shed light on Lockheed scandal, dies at 80
Tachibana¡¯s work is often credited with having played a major role in bringing down the late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, Â鶹´«Ã½ most powerful leader in the postwar era.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 17, 2021
Caught in the middle? Komeito and the China-Japan relationship
While many in the LDP have welcomed international pressure on China, the deteriorating bilateral relationship creates problems for the party¡¯s coalition partner Komeito.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 20, 2019
New era aside, Showa nostalgia continues to keep rolling along
The new Reiwa Era is now into its third month and histories are starting to appear about the Heisei Era that preceded it. In late June, the publishing arm of the Mainichi Shimbun released a 384-page softcover book titled ¡°Heisei-shi Zenkiroku¡± (¡°Chronicle 1989-2019¡°). The same week, the Nikkei Shimbun...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 1, 2018
Japan Times 1968: Bandit steals ?294 million in daring daylight robbery
A young man posing as a motorcycle policeman robbed a bank car of u00a5294 million in cash in a daring broad daylight robbery on a highway in Fuchu in western Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / History
Apr 29, 2017
Power politics: Â鶹´«Ã½ most popular political platforms
Looking back at some of the political platforms that have been heavily endorsed by voters over the past century in a bid to predict where the country might be headed under the ¡®third generation¡¯ of postwar Japanese.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 11, 2017
The first missteps for Â鶹´«Ã½ first lady
On Feb. 27, Democratic Party lawmaker Kiyomi Tsujimoto submitted questions to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party about the activities of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in regard to her relationship with Moritomo Gakuen, a controversial corporate body that wants to build an elementary...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 22, 2016
¡®Lockheed Incident Document 40th Year Shocking Scoop¡¯; ¡®Yassan¡¯; Xflag
Thanks mainly to a first-person ¡°biography¡± written by former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, there is renewed interest in disgraced former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. NHK is presenting a series of special programs, some of which are dramatizations, about the scandal that brought Tanaka down: the Lockheed...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 3, 2016
¡®Legal Advice Office With a Line Outside the Door¡¯;
Before he became a firebrand politician, Toru Hashimoto was a lawyer and TV personality, and one of the variety shows he often appeared on was Nippon TV¡¯s ¡°Gyoretsu no Dekiru Horitsu Sodanjo¡± (¡°Legal Advice Office With a Line Outside the Door¡°; Sun., 9 p.m.). This week, another retired political firebrand...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 21, 2016
The second life of Kakuei Tanaka
In July 1976, the month when 218 million Americans were feting their nation¡¯s 200th birthday, dramatic events were taking place on other continents also. On July 4 ¡ª America¡¯s Independence Day ¡ª an Israeli commando force staged a dramatic raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of...
CULTURE
Nov 21, 2015
Yukio Mishima¡¯s enduring, unexpected influence
Forty-five years ago this week ¡ª at just after 10 a.m. on the bright, cold morning of Nov. 25, 1970 ¡ª a telephone rang at the Tokyo home of popular enka singer Hideo Murata. On the line was author Yukio Mishima, a man who in the short space of his 45 years had lived life more fully than perhaps seemed...
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2014
Populist Hashimoto a true ¡®yankii¡¯?
In Japanese politics, someone labeled a ¡®yankii¡¯ is something of a populist who disdains cosmopolitanism and intellectual elitism. But does that apply to outspoken Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto?
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

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