The previous month, Abe, Noboru Takeshita and Kiichi Miyazawa vied to succeed Yasuhiro Nakasone as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. But before a party vote, Nakasone intervened ...

A joint funeral that sparked criticism for its lavish cost to taxpayers and a government request to schools to show mourning was held on Oct. 17 for former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

Watanabe cultivated close ties with conservative leaders who governed the country across decades, like Yasuhiro Nakasone and Shinzo Abe, and to helped form Japan's conservative public opinion.

As former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone headed on a high-profile mission to Iraq in early November 1990 seeking the release of Japanese hostages, a secret diplomatic mission was also starting.

In 1987, at the height of Japan’s bubble economy, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone told US President Ronald Reagan Japan ...

The latest setback to the Human Frontier Science Program came earlier this month at the Venice economic summit, where Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had been expected to unveil an official proposal.

They describe, for example, conversations between former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, as well as how Hisashi Owada, senior deputy minister for ...

For example, after former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone died in 2020, local governments were asked to express their condolences during the funeral hosted by the Cabinet and the ruling Liberal ...

Watanabe, a representative director and editor-in-chief of the daily, had close ties with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and a number of other powerful Japanese political figures.