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New Roles for Takeshita and Japan |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Tetsuya Kataoka |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,462 Words, 8,985 Characters |
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On October 20, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) chose Noboru Takeshita to succeed Yasuhiro Nakasone. He will serve a two-year term as party leader and, hence, prime minister. Now secretary-general of the LDP, the 62-year-old Takeshita is a former finance minister and a veteran of government and party politics within a system that requires a protracted period of grooming and apprenticeship. Takeshita is also part of the generation of "new leaders"; not because he is young, but because he belongs to the third generation of political leaders since World War II.
A graduate of Waseda University, a private school in Tokyo, Takeshita taught high school in his hometown in Shimane Prefecture in southern Japan before serving several terms as prefectural assemblyman. He ran succ...
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...oly also liquidated the biggest and most radical union, which formed, moreover, the backbone of the Japan Socialist Party. The impact of this blow will not be immediately visible. One conceivable result might be realignment of all opposition parties into a unified party inclined to behave more like a "loyal opposition" and willing to assume the responsibilities of power if the LDP should fumble.
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