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'''Kakuei Tanaka''' (Kanji: 田中角栄, Hiragana:たなかくえい, Tanaka Kakuei) was a Japanese politician who was the Prime Minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974. He was the most influential figure in Japanese politics during the 1970s after winning a power struggle with the much weaker Takeo Fukuda, he was also a central figure in many political scandals that had taken place throughout the early-1970s to the mid 1980s. He was also considered a "Shadow Shogun" a title that was currently used to describe Ichiro Ozawa.