Thirty-two years ago today, on December 16, 1993 (November 4, 1993 lunar calendar), former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka passed away. Former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka At 2:04 pm on December 16, 1993, the former Japanese Prime Minister known to the Chinese people Kakuei Tanaka passed away due to illness at the age of 75. Kakuei Tanaka was a courageous, courageous and daring politician. In 1972, he visited China as Prime Minister, normalizing Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations and ending the abnormal state of Sino-Japanese relations for decades after the war. In 1974, he stepped down due to his involvement in the Lockheed case. In 1976, he announced his withdrawal from the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1990, Kakuei Tanaka retired from politics. Tanaka Kakuei was born in May 1918 in a poor peasant family in Kariwa Prefecture, Shinkawa Prefecture. In the general election of Japan's new postwar constitution in 1947, at the age of 29, Tanaka was recommended to participate in the election of the House of Representatives of the Niigata Prefecture of the Democratic Party (the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party merged to form the Liberal Democratic Party in 1955), and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives for the first time. He was active in politics as a member and director of the House Construction Committee. Tanaka served as a director of the Liberal Democratic Party for four years, which greatly cultivated his own power. After Eisaku Sato handed over power in 1972, he competed with Takeo Fukuda for the positions of president and prime minister of the Liberal Democratic Party. He joined forces with the Paikata faction and the Miki faction to launch an offensive against Fukuda. As a result, Fukuda was defeated by a majority of 6 votes and took power. He became the first prime minister in Japanese political history without a college education. His election became a big news in the Japanese government and opposition for a while. On September 28, 1972, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka toasted each other. In a diplomatic toast, Tanaka Kakuei achieved a feat that will go down in history - restoring friendly relations between China and Japan. Thirty years after the war, Sino-Japanese relations have been in an abnormal state. Tanaka became Prime Minister in 1972. Determined to make a breakthrough, he defied all opinions and broke through many obstacles. He resolutely visited China in September 1972 and issued a joint statement with our country, realizing the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. The normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan not only made Japan the first to take the initiative in the diplomatic arena of contention with the United States, but also laid the foundation for stability in Asia. However, if the coordinate of "politics is the highest morality" is used to measure, Tanaka Kakuei will fall from the peak to the bottom. In order to maintain power, Tanaka Kakuei proposed that "numbers are strength." Since then, Japanese politics has become a complete clique. Whoever has the most people is the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and the only way for these leaders to attract people is money. Due to the unscrupulous efforts of politicians led by Tanaka to make money, Japan's big business has also been unscrupulous in bribery. Tanaka's political methods can only be short-lived, and within two years, he was forced to resign due to a money scandal. On September 28, 1972, Premier Zhou and then Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka met in Beijing