Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka Calligraphy "Nurturing Ambition" Calligraphy by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka "Nurturing Ambition" This is a handwritten calligraphy (printed) by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan, President of the Liberal Democratic Party, and a member of the House of Representatives. Nurturing Ambition "Nurturing Ambition" (yōshi) means "to have high aspirations" or "to cultivate and nurture one's ambitions." It is a term derived from the "Mencius," and refers to "filial piety of nurturing ambition" (yōshi no kō), which means to strive for filial piety in order to satisfy one's parents. You are welcome to purchase without any comments. Thank you. Kakuei Tanaka (May 4, 1918 - December 16, 1993) was a Japanese businessman, politician, and architect. He served as a member of the House of Representatives (16 terms), Minister of Posts (12th), Minister of Finance (67th, 68th, and 69th), Minister of International Trade and Industry (33rd), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (6th), and Prime Minister (64th and 65th). Tanaka, who led the Tanaka faction, the largest faction in the Liberal Democratic Party, was a rare figure who combined the characteristics of both a party politician and a bureaucrat politician, demonstrating skillful bureaucratic manipulation. When he was aiming for the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party as one of the next generation of leaders, he was called a "bulldozer with a computer" because of his vast and clear knowledge and his ability to carry things through. He was the first Prime Minister born in the Taisho era, and during his tenure, he dealt with political issues such as the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, the Japan-China Journalists Exchange Agreement, the Kim Dae-jung incident, and the First Oil Crisis. He resigned as Prime Minister due to the Tanaka money scandal following the Japan Archipelago Remodeling Plan, which he put forward during the power struggle, and was later arrested and imprisoned in the Lockheed bribery scandal, which involved the sale of aircraft by Lockheed, a major U.S. aircraft manufacturer, to All Nippon Airways, and left the Liberal Democratic Party. After resigning as Prime Minister and after his arrest in the Lockheed scandal, he continued to exert a significant influence on the political world through the Tanaka faction, and was nicknamed the "Shadow Shogun" (of Mejiro) by the media. When he became Prime Minister, he was also called "The Modern Taiko," "The Commoner Premier," and "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" because of his career, which saw him rise to the position of Prime Minister despite not having a higher education. Politicians Members of the Diet Sanae Takaichi Noboru Takeshita Kakuei Tanaka Yoshihide Suga Shinzo Abe Fumio Kishida Taro Kono Sanae Takaichi Seiko Noda Prime Minister President of the Liberal Democratic Party Member of the House of Representatives Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Trump Putin Lockheed Kissinger Kim Jong-un Japan North Korea Makiko Tanaka