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Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Japanese PM and Reagan confidant, dies at 101
Source: Reuters
Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Japanese PM and Reagan confidant, dies at 101
Reuters
Fri 29 Nov 2019 06.14 GMT
Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of Japan’s longest-reigning prime ministers and known for his friendship with Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 101.
Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 to 1987, shared the world stage with Reagan and Margaret Thatcher while battling with bureaucrats over domestic reforms.
He himself said he failed to achieve a dream of revising the country’s pacifist, post-war constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of the military.
“Revising the constitution takes time. I stressed to the public that it was necessary, but it was not possible to begin the revision quickly,” the straight-talking Nakasone told Reuters in an interview in January 2010.
The current prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has made loosening the limits of the US-drafted constitution a key goal but revising the charter’s pacifist Article Nine remains contentious.
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Reuters
Fri 29 Nov 2019 06.14 GMT
Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of Japan’s longest-reigning prime ministers and known for his friendship with Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 101.
Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 to 1987, shared the world stage with Reagan and Margaret Thatcher while battling with bureaucrats over domestic reforms.
He himself said he failed to achieve a dream of revising the country’s pacifist, post-war constitution to clarify the ambiguous status of the military.
“Revising the constitution takes time. I stressed to the public that it was necessary, but it was not possible to begin the revision quickly,” the straight-talking Nakasone told Reuters in an interview in January 2010.
The current prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has made loosening the limits of the US-drafted constitution a key goal but revising the charter’s pacifist Article Nine remains contentious.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/29/yasuhiro-nakasone-japanese-pm-and-reagan-confidant-dies-at-101
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