Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka was a Japanese politician who served in the House of Representatives fromApril 1947 toJanuary 1990, and as the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan fromJuly 1972 toDecember 1974 .
Tanaka was born into a rural family with seven children in Nishiyama, Niigata Prefecture onMay 1918. His father was involved with a disastrous venture to start Niigatas first dairy farm, and so the family scraped by in abject poverty. Kakuei left school at the age of fifteen and worked construction jobs while studying parttime at night.
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