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Yasuhiro Nakasone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Nakasone rose through the LDP's ranks, becoming Minister of Science in 1959 under the government of Nobusuke Kishi, then Minister of Transport in 1967, head of the Agency of Defense in 1970, Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1972 and Minister of Administration in 1981. |
 | | 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. |
 | | Nakasone's son, Hirofumi Nakasone, is also a member of the Diet, and served in the cabinet of Keizo Obuchi. |
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