When former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited Iraq during the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990, he spoke frankly with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, urging him to pull out of Kuwait within a ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

That vision is one of several recommmendations in a report to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone by the Space Development Committee. It is meant as a guide for government ministries as they seek budget ...

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.