Noboru Takeshita, a scandal-tainted former Prime Minister who mentored a generation of Japanese leaders as a behind-the-scenes ''shadow shogun'', died yesterday after a lengthy illness. He was 76.

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I met Noboru Takeshita in the early 1970s when he came to New York with a bipartisan delegation of Diet members. After dinner with the delegation, Takeshita, Tamio Kawakami, a lower house member from ...

TOKYO -- Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who reigned as one of Japan's top kingmakers long after he was driven from office by scandal in 1989, died today after an extended illness. Kyodo News ...

TOKYO -- A bureaucrat at the prime minister's office unveiled three proposed era names, including Heisei, to then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and then Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi about 3 ...

– Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita`s beleaguered government was dealt another blow by new reports that Takeshita received secret payments from the company at the center of a widening influence ...

TAKESHITA STARTS ASIAN TOUR. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita of Japan arrived in Thailand on Saturday to begin a nine-day southeast Asian tour, likely to be his last as Japan’s premier. Takeshita, who ...

In tradition-rich Japan, where ritual public suicide has long been a means of salvaging one`s honor, Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita`s televised resignation Tuesday to accept responsibility for a ...

SCANDAL FIGURE. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita Thursday rejected opposition calls for the resignation of his new justice minister, who received political donations from a company at the heart of a ...

On the day Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita’s Cabinet was reshuffled in December 1988, the newly minted ministers who met the media were adamant in denying their involvement in a scandal. They denied ...

With the world’s eyes on Tokyo for the Olympics, it’s the perfect time to recall Japan’s Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita’s trip to Toronto in 1988, when he relaxed his traditionally formal comportment ...