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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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 Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nakasone´s major economic initiatives was the appointment, in 1986, of the Mackawa Commission, which issued a report calling on Japan to undergo a "historic transformation" away from export-led growth and toward expansion through increased domestic demand.
Yasuhiro Nakasone was born on May 27, 1918 and attended the University of Tokyo, where he majored in political science from the Faculty of Law.
Nakasone entered the race for prime minister and was elected with 58% of the votes cast.
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 Nakasone Yasuhiro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nakasone was replaced by Takeshita Noboru in 1987, and was implicated, along with other LDP lawmakers, in the Recruit scandal that broke the following year.
The move was widely seen as a blunt and effective attack by Prime Minister Koizumi on the old guard LDP leadership.
Nakasone's son, Nakasone Hirofumi, is also a member of the Diet, and served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Obuchi.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Yasuhiro_Nakasone   (424 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nakasone Yasuhiro
Nakasone Yasuhiro, born in 1918, prime minister of Japan (1982-1987).
Born in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Nakasone was educated at the University of...
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who had reached the peak of his political power and personal popularity in 1986, suffered a severe political defeat this year when he unsuccessfully tried to force a new...
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 Nakasone, Yasuhiro on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
A political ally of Kakuei Tanaka, Nakasone succeeded Zenko Suzuki as prime minister.
Nakasone's world-class blunder; Japan's leader stirs a tempest by linking race to intellect.
(Yasuhiro Nakasone's remarks on intelligence of U.S. non-whites)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nakasone.asp   (272 words)

  
 A real journalist interviews Yasuhiro Nakasone on the Japaneseconstituti
Nakasone: The nation that left the constitution created by the Meiji Emperor in the past as it was and then left the present constitution which was created under the strong influence of foreign countries must be criticized as a nation of ignorance.
Nakasone: The present constitution Japan was forced to accept by the other nations can establish laws for operating the nation's government but it cannot be the constitution of the Japanese nation.
Nakasone: I think that there are five movements that seem to be important toward the new century.
www.mail-archive.com /fukuzawa@ucsd.edu/msg10690.html   (1765 words)

  
 GLOCOM Platform - Opinions
Yasuhiro Nakasone made his political career in the shadow of United States occupation after the Pacific war of 1941-45, when he was a young naval officer.
Yasuhiro Nakasone was a political gadfly, a right-wing dissenter from Japan's alliance with the United States, and a brash nationalist voice within the perennially governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Nakasone was often the first to speak in their discussions - unlike all Japan's prime ministers before and since, until Junichiro Koizumi.
www.glocom.org /opinions/essays/20040628_inoguchi_america/index.html   (1657 words)

  
 Nakasone Yasuhiro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In an event presided over by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the names of the Laureates in the five categories were announced as follows: Painting...
Prime Minister Nakasone (Yasuhiro) in the 1980s desisted from worshipping at Yasukuni Shrine when he saw the anger it caused in neighboring countries and the...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro advocated that the Summit Meeting of the Seven Western Countries should play a key role in the construction of...
www.wikiverse.org /nakasone-yasuhiro   (348 words)

  
 My Way - News
TOKYO (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone once ordered defense officials to look into developing a nuclear capability for Japan, the only nation to be attacked with an atomic bomb, Kyodo news agency said Friday.
Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 to 1987, was quoted as saying in his memoirs due out next week that as defense minister in 1970 he had asked military experts to investigate the cost and time needed for Japan to develop and deploy nuclear weapons.
Nakasone, a former lieutenant in the Imperial Navy and a member of parliament until last year, is among politicians who believe Japan should build up its military and alter its pacifist constitution to give the army a bigger role in defending the country and in regional security.
news.myway.com /top/article/id/42577|top|06-18-2004::08:05|reuters.html   (348 words)

  
 CV_JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Yasuhiro Nakasone served as prime minister of Japan from 1982 - 1987, during which time he attained an unprecedented presence as a global political figure.
One of Mr.Nakasone's major economic initiatives was the appointment, in 1986, of the Mackawa Commission, which issued a report calling on Japan to undergo a "historic transformation" away from export-led growth and toward expansion through increased domestic demand.
Yasuhiro Nakasone was born on May 27, 1918 and attended the University of Tokyo, where he majored in political science, Following graduation, he became a civil servant in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
www.tu.ac.th /activity/seminar/advent/cv_japan.htm   (458 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Nakasone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The joint communique says the meeting accepted the resignation of Yasuhiro Nakasone from the presidency of the APPF and invited him to continue to serve as the...
Proposed by former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who serves as current chairman of the forum, the APPF was first staged in Tokyo in January 1993.
Yasuhiro Nakasone, in 1985, was the last incumbent prime minister to visit the shrine on Aug. 15.
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/N/Nakasone.shtml   (1045 words)

  
 Japan Times: Nakasone reportedly ready to bow out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In theory, Nakasone could seek re-election by running as an independent in one of the five single-seat districts in his native Gunma Prefecture.
Top executives in Nakasone's local support group and of the LDP's intraparty faction to which Nakasone belongs are advising him not to run as an independent, the sources said.
Nakasone is scheduled to visit Gunma Prefecture on Tuesday, when the campaign officially kicks off, to announce his final decision on his political fate.
www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/makeprfy.pl5?nn20031027a1.htm   (297 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Multimedia - Nakasone Yasuhiro
Nakasone Yasuhiro was the prime minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Nakasone rose through the ranks of the ruling Liberal-Democratic party, holding several prominent cabinet positions.
He survived party scandals and ruled until 1987, when his handpicked successor, Takeshita Noboru, became prime minister.
au.encarta.msn.com /media_461515700/Nakasone_Yasuhiro.html   (49 words)

  
 IPS | Asia America Voices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
According to former prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, the turning point was when Koizumi decided to defy all criticism by sending Japan's Maritime Self Defence Forces (SDF) to the Middle East to support the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
But as he pointed out in his speech, Nakasone himself was the first Japanese prime minister to visit the shrine.
Nakasone said he did not visit the shrine as a Japanese leader but, rather, as a private citizen who "joined the war" and saw "lots of my colleagues die".
www.ips.org /asiaamerica/asianvoices/japan8.html   (1322 words)

  
 nakasone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nakasone Yasuhiro, you advocated the gDeparture from the Post-War Politicsh and were awarded the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum despite that you were sneered as being a flip-flopper.
Nakasone, you publicly stated in 1987 when you were the prime minister, gWe clean up public corporations with administrative reforms to establish a respected constitutionh.
Nakasone told in interviews with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation, a public TV station) and Aera, a monthly magazine, "We carried out the reform of the National Railways by bearing it in mind that the suppression of Kokuro would lead to the suppression of Sohyo (General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, a liberal union)".
www1.jca.apc.org /ouen/002text/englishappeal.html   (676 words)

  
 Professionally wirtten biography of Yasuhiro Nakasone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nakasone Yasuhiro (born 1918) was a Japanese politician who helped rebuild pride in the nation and in Japan's world role.
Nakasone's political influence again grew stronger when he was named as one of the senior advisers to the LDP in 1991.
Nakasone is also profiled and interviewed in numerous periodicals.
www.sayessay.com /biographies/Yasuhiro_Nakasone-34919.html   (321 words)

  
 Yorkshire CND - Nakasone ok'd Nukes for Japan - 20/12/00   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
At the time, Nakasone was director-general of the Defense Agency in the administration of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato.
The Japanese records show that Nakasone told Laird that Japan would not need to develop its own nuclear weapons as long as the U.S. nuclear deterrence was in place.
Nakasone also said that the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan was an issue for prior consultation between Japan and the United States.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/japan.htm   (329 words)

  
 Ex-Japanese premier once challenged Japan's non-nuclear taboo: report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Yasuhiro Nakasone, who was premier from 1982 to 1987, ordered the study in 1970 when he was director-general of the country's defence agency, a post equivalent to defence minister in other countries, the Kyodo news agency said.
The revelation is contained in Nakasone's memoirs to be published on June 25, Kyodo said.
Nakasone, widely remembered as a hawk, writes that he instructed military experts at the agency to work out the costs involved and the time it would take for Japan to develop and deploy nuclear weapons, the report said.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040618132216.46ju2sm1.html   (283 words)

  
 Japan, Germany taking new roles in world finance, Nakasone says
Nakasone, who was invited to Stanford by the Graduate School of Business and the Hoover Institution, also issued a battle call against protectionism.
Nakasone also called for Japan and Germany to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, although conceding "I do not anticipate a revision of the Charter soon."
Nakasone called for Japan to "reconfirm our belief in liberal democratic values and consider as an essential mission the dissemination of these values.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/92/920219Arc2405.html   (602 words)

  
 Nakasone pulls out of 1989 Comton Lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
According to the Japanese Consulate in Boston, Nakasone chose to remain in Japan to participate in parliamentary deliberations.
Nakasone remains a member of the Diet, Japan's parliament, which is battling a March 5 deadline to settle budget differences.
Nakasone may also have to testify before the Diet concerning a stock scandal involving three of his former aides, according to the Boston Globe.
www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N8/lec.08n.html   (341 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Japan - Economic Achievements and the Liberal Democratic Party | Japanese Information Resource
Nakasone Yasuhiro, a conservative backed by the still-powerful Tanaka and Suzuki factions who once served as director general of the Defense Agency, became prime minister in November 1982.
Nakasone's more strident position on Japanese defense issues made him popular with some United States officials but not, generally, in Japan or among Asian neighbors.
The end of Nakasone's tenure as prime minister in October 1987 (his second two-year term had been extended for one year) was a momentous point in modern Japanese history.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/japan/japan49.html   (1275 words)

  
 The Tanuki Ramble: The George-Jun Relationship?
Nakasone was Japan's version of Reagan, an imposing, older man with solid conservative principles.
Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan was an eager member of the group, and as Japan's only English-fluent, over-six-foot prime minister he could engage with the group in an unprecedentedly close fashion.
Nakasone's domestic and foreign policy agenda, known as "Internationalization" [kokusaika], was an attempt to leverage Japan's economic strength into both national pride and renewed activism on the international stage.
zimblog.typepad.com /tanuki_ramble/2004/10/the_georgejun_r.html   (1370 words)

  
 Japanese lawmaker and former Minster abandons election ambitions with haiku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Monday abandoned plans to run for re-election to Japan's parliament and marked the occasion by writing a haiku.
Nakasone accused the prime minister of age discrimination and said he was promised -- before Koizumi took office -- that he could keep his seat as long as he wanted it.
Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 through 1987, did not specify what kind of future role he was considering.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/27/international1113EST0557.DTL   (305 words)

  
 Yasuhiro Nakasone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Yasuhiro Nakasone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
May 27, 1918) was a Japanese politician and the 71st, 72nd, and 73rd Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987.
The article about Yasuhiro Nakasone contains information related to Yasuhiro Nakasone.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nakasone_Yasuhiro   (442 words)

  
 Time : A big shokku for Yasu; the Liberal Democrats just hang on. (Yasuhiro Nakasone) @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Pundits and polls alike had predicted a respectable victory for Yasuhiro Nakasone and his Liberal Democrats, so the news last week sent a shokku from the southern tip of Kyushu to northern Hokkaido.
When the ballots were counted for the 511-member lower house of parliament, the L.D.P. had failed to win a majority, only the third time that has happened since the party came to power in 1955.
The voters' rejection shocked no one so much as Nakasone, who is halfway through his two-year term as party leader.
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 Yasuhiro Nakasone Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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