Yasuhiro Nakasone

Yasuhiro Nakasone
中曽根 康弘
Official portrait, 1982
Prime Minister of Japan
In office 27 November 1982 – 6 November 1987
Monarch	Hirohito
Deputy	Shin Kanemaru
Preceded by	Zenkō Suzuki
Succeeded by	Noboru Takeshita
President of the Liberal Democratic Party
In office 25 November 1982 – 31 October 1987
Vice President	Susumu Nikaidō
Secretary-General	Susumu Nikaidō Rokusuke Tanaka Shin Kanemaru Noboru Takeshita Shintaro Abe
Preceded by	Zenkō Suzuki
Succeeded by	Noboru Takeshita
Ministerial offices Director-General of the Administrative Management Agency In office 17 July 1980 – 27 November 1982 Prime Minister Zenkō Suzuki Preceded by Sōsuke Uno Succeeded by Kunikichi Saitō Minister of International Trade and Industry In office 7 July 1972 – 9 December 1974 Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka Preceded by Kakuei Tanaka Succeeded by Toshio Kōmoto Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency In office 7 July 1972 – 22 December 1972 Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka Preceded by Shirō Kiuchi Succeeded by Kazuo Maeda In office 18 June 1959 – 19 July 1960 Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi Preceded by Tatsunosuke Takasaki Succeeded by Masuo Araki Director-General of the Defense Agency In office 14 January 1970 – 5 July 1971 Prime Minister Eisaku Satō Preceded by Kiichi Arita Succeeded by Keikichi Masuhara Minister of Transport In office 25 November 1967 – 30 November 1968 Prime Minister Eisaku Satō Preceded by Takeo Oohashi Succeeded by Ken Harada
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 25 April 1947 – 10 October 2003
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Constituency	Gunma 3rd (1947–1996) Northern Kanto PR (1996–2003)
Personal details
Born	(1918-05-27)27 May 1918 Takasaki, Gunma, Empire of Japan
Died	29 November 2019(2019-11-29) (aged 101) Tokyo, Japan
Political party	LDP (1955–2019)
Other political affiliations	DP (1947–1950) NDP (1950–1952) Kaishintō (1952–1954) JDP (1954–1955)
Spouse	Tsutako Nakasone ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 2012)​
Children	Hirofumi Nakasone
Relatives	Yasutaka Nakasone (grandson)
Alma mater	Tokyo Imperial University
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Branch/service	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1941–1945
Rank	Lieutenant-commander (as Naval Paymaster)
Battles/wars	World War II
Yasuhiro Nakasone's voice Nakasone on Japan–United States relations Recorded 2 January 1985

Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘, Nakasone Yasuhiro, 27 May 1918 – 29 November 2019) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies and pursuing a hawkish and pro-U.S. foreign policy.

Born in Gunma Prefecture, Nakasone graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and served in the imperial navy during the Pacific War. After the war, he entered the National Diet in 1947 and rose through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party, serving as chief of the Defense Agency from 1970 to 1971 under Eisaku Satō, international trade and industry minister from 1972 to 1974 under Kakuei Tanaka, and administration minister from 1980 to 1982 under Zenkō Suzuki. As prime minister, he passed large defense budgets and controversially visited the Yasukuni Shrine. A conservative contemporary of U.S. president Ronald Reagan, Nakasone privatized the Japanese National Railways and telephone systems, and favored closer ties with the U.S., once calling Japan an "unsinkable aircraft carrier". After leaving office in 1987, he was implicated in the Recruit scandal, causing the influence of his LDP faction to wane before he retired from the Diet in 2004.