Kakuei Tanaka

Who was Kakuei Tanaka?

Kakuei Tanaka was a Japanese politician and the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan from 7 July 1972 to 22 December 1972 and from 22 December 1972 to 9 December 1974 respectively. He was also the most influential member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party until the mid-1980s, when he fell from power after a long series of scandals, leading him to be described as "that paragon of post-war corruption."

Tanaka, nicknamed Kaku-san, was known as the "Shadow Shogun".

His political-economic direction is called construction state.