Yasuhiro Nakasone

Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘 Nakasone Yasuhiro, b. May 27, 1918) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A conservative contemporary of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister.

Later political life

Nakasone was replaced by Noboru Takeshita in 1987, and was implicated, along with other LDP lawmakers, in the Recruit scandal that broke the following year.

Related Topics:
Noboru Takeshita - 1987 - Recruit scandal

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Although he remained in the Diet for another decade and a half, his influence gradually waned. In 2003, Nakasone was not given a place on the LDP's electoral list, thereby ending his career as a member of the Diet. The move was widely seen as a blunt and effective attack by Junichiro Koizumi on the old guard LDP leadership.

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2003 - Diet - Junichiro Koizumi

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Nakasone's son, Hirofumi Nakasone, is also a member of the Diet, and served in the cabinet of Keizo Obuchi.

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Hirofumi Nakasone - Keizo Obuchi

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