Kakuei Tanaka

A charismatic and self-made political powerhouse, Kakuei Tanaka reshaped Japan's physical and diplomatic landscape. Authoring the "Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago," he drove nationwide infrastructure expansion including high-speed Shinkansen lines. As Prime Minister in 1972, he achieved the historic normalization of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Despite his arrest in the Lockheed scandal, he maintained immense influence over Japanese politics for decades.

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Year	Kakuei Tanaka
1918	Birth of Kakuei Tanaka (Period: May 4, 1918, Location: Futada Village, Kariwa District, Niigata Prefecture (present-day near Futada, Nishiyama Town, Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture))
1934	Move to Tokyo and employment in the construction industry (Age: 15 years old, Period: 1934–1936, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1937	Establishment of Kyoei Architecture Office (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1939	Conscription and military service in Manchuria (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1939–1941, Location: Fujin, Manchukuo, etc.) Nomonhan Incident (Age: 20 years old, Period: May–September 1939, Location: Border region between Manchukuo and the Mongolian People's Republic (near present-day Mongolia-Russia border)) World War II and the Pacific War (Age: 21 years old, Period: December 1941–August 1945), Location: Europe, China, Southeast Asia, Pacific Region, etc.)
1941	Resumption of Tanaka Architecture Office (Age: 23 years old, Period: November 1941, Location: Near Iidabashi, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)
1942	Marriage to Hana Sakamoto (Age: 23 years old, Period: March 1942, Location: Uncertain) Marriage (Kakuei Tanaka, Hana Tanaka (maiden name), Age: 23 years old, Period: March 1942, Location: Uncertain)
1943	Establishment of Tanaka Civil Engineering and Construction (Age: 25 years old, Period: December 1943, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1945	Factory relocation construction work in the Korean Peninsula (Age: 26 years old, Period: February–August 1945, Location: Taejon, Korean Peninsula (present-day Daejeon Metropolitan City, South Korea))
1947	Coal Mine State Control Scandal (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1947–1951, Location: Japan, nationwide centering around Tokyo)
1948	Appointment as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Justice (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1948, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1955	Joining the Liberal Democratic Party (Age: 37 years old, Period: November 1955, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1957	Appointment as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in the First Kishi Cabinet (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 38 years old, Period: February 1957–June 1958, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1961	Appointment as Chairman of the Policy Research Council of the LDP (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1961, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1962	Appointment as Minister of Finance in the Second Ikeda Cabinet (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 44 years old, Period: July 1962–July 1964, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1964	Appointment as Minister of Finance in the Sato Cabinet (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 46 years old, Period: November 1964–June 1965, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1965	Appointment as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 47 years old, Period: June 1965–December 1966, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1971	Appointment as Minister of International Trade and Industry in the Third Sato Cabinet (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 53 years old, Period: July 1971–July 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1972	Land price skyrocketing and rampant inflation associated with the Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1972–1974, Location: Nationwide Japan, especially metropolitan areas and planned development areas for Shinkansen and expressways) Announcement of the Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago (Age: 54 years old, Period: June 1972, Location: Nationwide Japan) Assumption of office as President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 54 years old, Period: July 5, 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Assumption of office as Prime Minister (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 54 years old, Period: July 7, 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Normalization of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and China (Age: 54 years old, Period: September 25–29, 1972, Location: Beijing, China) Inauguration of the Second Tanaka Cabinet (Age: 54 years old, Period: December 22, 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1973	Response to the First Oil Crisis (Age: 55 years old, Period: October 1973–1974, Location: World countries including Japan)
1974	Tanaka money power scandal (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1974, Location: Japan, nationwide centering around Tokyo) Resignation as prime minister and mass resignation of the cabinet (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 56 years old, Period: November–December 9, 1974, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1976	Lockheed bribery scandal (Age: 57 years old, Period: February 1976–October 1983 (first-instance trial ruling), Location: Tokyo; Washington, D.C., United States, etc.) Arrest due to the Lockheed scandal (Age: 58 years old, Period: July 27, 1976, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1983	First-instance guilty verdict in the Lockheed trial (Age: 65 years old, Period: October 12, 1983, Location: Tokyo District Court, Tokyo)
1985	Split of the Tanaka faction and formation of the Takeshita faction (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1985–1987, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Hospitalization due to cerebral infarction (Age: 66 years old, Period: February 27, 1985, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1989	Retirement from politics (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 70 years old, Period: 1989–1990, Location: Tokyo, Niigata Prefecture)
1993	Death of Kakuei Tanaka (Age: 75 years old, Period: December 16, 1993, Location: Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo (Keio University Hospital)) Passing (Kakuei Tanaka, Age: 75 years old, Period: December 16, 1993, Location: Keio University Hospital, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo)

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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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