Takeo Miki

Known as "Clean Miki," Takeo Miki assumed the premiership amidst public disillusionment over political corruption, prioritizing governance reform and institutional transparency. He enacted key amendments to the Political Funds Control Act, supported full investigations into the Lockheed scandal, and introduced the policy capping defense spending at 1% of GNP. Miki also represented Japan at the inaugural G7 summits, establishing an independent, ethics-focused political legacy.

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1907	Birth of Takeo Miki (Period: March 17, 1907, Location: Gosho Village, Itano District, Tokushima Prefecture (present-day Gosho, Donari Town, Awa City, Tokushima Prefecture))
1920	Student days at Tokushima Prefectural Commercial School and other institutions (Age: 12 years old, Period: 1920s, Location: Tokushima Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture) Enrollment in Meiji University (Age: 12 years old, Period: Late 1920s–1937, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1932	Study abroad in the U.S. and overseas inspection (Age: 24 years old, Period: Around 1932–1936, Location: Los Angeles, United States, etc.)
1940	Marriage (Takeo Miki, Mutsuko Miki (maiden name), Age: 33 years old, Period: June 26, 1940, Location: Uncertain)
1942	Yokusan Election (Age: 35 years old, Period: April 1942, Location: Nationwide Japan) Unrecommended election victory in the Yokusan Election (Age: 35 years old, Period: April 1942, Location: Tokushima Prefecture)
1946	Participation in the establishment of the Cooperative Democratic Party (Age: 39 years old, Period: May 1946, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1947	Establishment of the National Cooperative Party (Age: 39 years old, Period: March 1947, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Appointment as Minister of Communications (Takeo Miki, Age: 40 years old, Period: June 1947–March 1948, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1955	Appointment as Minister of Transport (Takeo Miki, Age: 48 years old, Period: November 1955–December 1956, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1956	Appointment as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (Takeo Miki, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1956, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1961	Appointment as Minister of State, Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency (Takeo Miki, Age: 54 years old, Period: July 1961–July 1962, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1965	Appointment as Minister of International Trade and Industry (Takeo Miki, Age: 58 years old, Period: June 1965–December 1966, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1966	Appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Takeo Miki, Age: 59 years old, Period: December 1966–October 1968, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1972	Candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election (Age: 65 years old, Period: July 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Appointment as Deputy Prime Minister and Director-General of the Environment Agency (Takeo Miki, Age: 65 years old, Period: December 1972–July 1974, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1974	Tanaka's money power scandal (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1974, Location: Japan, political circles centering around Tokyo) Assumption of office as the 66th Prime Minister (Takeo Miki, Age: 67 years old, Period: December 9, 1974, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1975	Efforts to amend the Political Funds Control Act and Public Offices Election Act (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1975, Location: National Diet, Tokyo)
1976	Setting of the 1% Defense Spending Cap (Age: 68 years old, Period: 1976, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Efforts to uncover the truth of the Lockheed scandal (Age: 68 years old, Period: February 1976 and after, Location: Japan, Tokyo; United States) LDP defeat in the 1976 House of Representatives general election (Age: 69 years old, Period: December 5, 1976, Location: Nationwide Japan)
1980	Retirement from politics (Takeo Miki, Age: 72 years old, Period: 1980s, Location: Tokushima Prefecture, Tokyo)
1988	Death of Takeo Miki (Age: 81 years old, Period: November 14, 1988 (Died at age 81), Location: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo (Mitsui Memorial Hospital)) Passing (Takeo Miki, Age: 81 years old, Period: November 14, 1988, Location: Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)

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Group	List
Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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