PRIME MINISTER Tanaka was convicted for taking bribes. PRIME MINISTER Nakasone was forced to resigned from LDP for connection with the Recruit Cosmos scandal.
PRIME MINISTER Murayama Tomiichi stepped down
du to the Jusen, non-proforming loan scandal.
PRIME MINISTER Hosokawa resigned over questionable loan and stock purchase.
PRIME MINISTER Takeshita and LDP king-maker Kanemaru were known to have ties with the Japanese underground Yakuza.