Susumu Nikaidō
…implicated). In 1984, former Prime Minister Zenkō Suzuki backed Nikaidō, who was then 75, in an ill-fated party leadership struggle against Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Nikaidō thereafter served as LDP Vice-president from 1984 to 1986. During this time, Tanaka was hospitalized following a stroke, and Nikaidō served…