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 ...

Yasuhiro Nakasone, conservative prime minister during the 1980s, brought vitality to issues of nationalism and security during his tenure and urged strengthening the SDF and Japanese military ties ...

The other two are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, who died in 1990 at the age of 102, and Yasuhiro Nakasone, who died in 2019 at the age of101. With his trademark bushy eyebrows, Murayama acquired a ...