Yasuhiro Nakasone

Under the banner of a "Settlement of Post-War Politics," Yasuhiro Nakasone exercised strong presidential-style leadership. He privatized major state monopolies—including Japanese National Railways and NTT—to drive administrative reform. Diplomatically, he established the close "Ron-Yas" relationship with U.S. President Reagan, reinforced the U.S.-Japan alliance, abolished the 1% defense spending cap, and solidified Japan's strategic identity within the Western bloc during the late Cold War.

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1918	Birth of Yasuhiro Nakasone (Period: May 27, 1918, Location: Suehiro-cho, Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture)
1938	Graduation from Shizuoka High School (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 19 years old, Period: 1938, Location: Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture)
1941	Military service as a Navy paymaster officer (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, etc.) Graduation from the Faculty of Law, Tokyo Imperial University (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 22 years old, Period: March 1941, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Entry into the Home Ministry and enlistment in the Imperial Japanese Navy (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 22 years old, Period: April 1941, Location: Tokyo, Japan; Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, etc.)
1945	Marriage (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Tsutako Nakasone (maiden name), Age: 26 years old, Period: February 11, 1945, Location: Uncertain) Return to the Home Ministry and engagement in police administration (Age: 27 years old, Period: October 1945–December 1946, Location: Tokyo; Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture)
1946	Retirement from the Home Ministry (Age: 28 years old, Period: December 1946, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1949	Formation of Seiunjuku (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1949, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1959	Appointment as Minister of State, Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 41 years old, Period: June 1959–July 1960, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1965	Evolution from the Kono faction to the Nakasone faction (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1965–1966, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1967	Appointment as Minister of Transport (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 49 years old, Period: November 1967–November 1968, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1970	Appointment as Director-General of the Defense Agency (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 51 years old, Period: January 1970–July 1971, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1971	Appointment as Chairman of the General Council of the LDP (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 53 years old, Period: July 1971–July 1972, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1972	Appointment as Minister of International Trade and Industry (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 54 years old, Period: July 1972–December 1974, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1974	Appointment as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 56 years old, Period: December 1974–September 1976, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1976	Allegations surrounding the Lockheed scandal (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1976, Location: Japan, political circles centering around Tokyo)
1977	Reappointment as Chairman of the General Council of the LDP (Age: 59 years old, Period: November 1977–December 1978, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1980	Appointment as Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 62 years old, Period: July 1980–November 1982, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1982	Assumption of office as President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 64 years old, Period: November 1982, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area) Assumption of office as the 71st Prime Minister (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 64 years old, Period: November 27, 1982, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
1983	Strengthening of relations with U.S. President Reagan (Age: 64 years old, Period: 1983–1987, Location: Tokyo, Japan; Washington, D.C., United States, etc.)
1985	Privatization of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (Age: 66 years old, Period: April 1985, Location: Nationwide Japan) Privatization of Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation (Age: 66 years old, Period: April 1985, Location: Nationwide Japan) Diplomatic issue surrounding official visits to Yasukuni Shrine (Age: 67 years old, Period: August 15, 1985 and after, Location: Yasukuni Shrine, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; Japan, China, South Korea, etc.) Official visit to Yasukuni Shrine (Age: 67 years old, Period: August 15, 1985, Location: Yasukuni Shrine, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)
1986	Enactment of the Japanese National Railways Reform Acts and division/privatization of JNR (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1986–April 1987, Location: Nationwide Japan) LDP landslide victory in the double elections for both houses (Age: 68 years old, Period: July 6, 1986, Location: Nationwide Japan)
1988	Recruit scandal (Age: 69 years old, Period: 1988–1989, Location: Japan, political and bureaucratic circles centering around Tokyo)
2003	Retirement from politics (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 85 years old, Period: October 2003, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)
2019	Death of Yasuhiro Nakasone (Age: 101 years old, Period: November 29, 2019 (Died at age 101), Location: Tokyo) Passing (Yasuhiro Nakasone, Age: 101 years old, Period: November 29, 2019, Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Area)

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Founding of the PRC	Deng Xiaoping Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Shaoqi Zhu De Chen Yun Jiang Qing Hua Guofeng Ye Jianying Wang Hongwen Zhang Chunqiao
Nation-building in Taiwan	Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Chen Cheng Yen Chia-kan Lee Teng-hui Sun Li-jen Koo Chen-fu James Soong (Soong Chu-yu) Kang Ning-hsiang Shih Ming-teh
State-building in South Korea	Syngman Rhee Park Chung-hee Chun Doo-hwan Roh Tae-woo Kim Young-sam Kim Dae-jung Chang Myon Kim Jong-pil Lee Byung-chul Chung Ju-yung Kim Jae-gyu
Post-war Reconstruction of Japan	Shigeru Yoshida Ichiro Hatoyama Nobusuke Kishi Hayato Ikeda Eisaku Sato Kakuei Tanaka Takeo Fukuda Masayoshi Ohira Yasuhiro Nakasone Takeo Miki

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