Background
TANAKA, Kakuei was born on May 4, 1918 in Niigata Prefecture. Son of Kazuki Tanaka and Fume Tanaka.
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TANAKA, Kakuei was born on May 4, 1918 in Niigata Prefecture. Son of Kazuki Tanaka and Fume Tanaka.
Chuo Technology High School, Tokyo.
Minister of Justice October-November 1948. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Kishi Cabinet) 1957-1958. Chairman Policy Research Council of Liberal Democratic
Party 1961-1962.
Secretary-General Liberal Democratic Party 1965-1966, 71. Minister of Finance 1962-1965. Chairman Research Commission, on Municipal Policy, Liberal Democratic
Party 1967-1968.
Minister of Institute Trade and Industry 72. President Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister 1972-1974. Chairman Board of directors, Echigo Traffic Company Limited.
1960.
Arrested on corruption charges July 1976, resigned from party leadership July 1976, sentenced to four years’ imprisonment 1983.
Although Tanaka Kakuei served as prime minister for only two years, he was instrumental in bringing three successor prime ministers to office and ensuring that his predecessor stayed in office longer than any other prime minister. The only prime minister since World War I not to have attended a university, he served with distinction as the minister in three of the all-important economic ministries and may come to be seen as the author of the body of communication law which permitted Japan to slide so readily into the information age.
Lower House of Parliament. 1947-1990.
Golf.
Married Hanako Sakamoto in 1942.
