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Kakuei Tanaka

Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993)

“Politics is power. Power is numbers.”

  • A saying attributed to the unscrupulous Japanese politician, Kakuei Tanaka (1918-1993). Our source here is Jacob M. Schlesinger’s book, Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine (Stanford University Press, 1997, 1999).

 

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