February 2
1972 Opening of the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
1976 Revelation in US Senate subcommittee hearing that Lockheed had bribed Japanese officials, including former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei (1918-93, P.M. 1972-74). Tanaka was arrested in July and charged with accepting $2 million in bribes. This was not Tanaka's first brush with such charges. In 1949 he was re-elected to the Japanese Diet while in jail on charges of corruption. He was acquitted in the 1949 case, but in 1983 he was convicted and sentenced. Appeals, however, kept him from actually serving time.
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