State seizes villa of late premier Tanaka's family

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Photo taken May 30 shows the villa owned by a firm run by the bereaved family of late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. It has been seized by the government after the family failed to pay overdue taxes for a 500 million yen bribe Tanaka allegedly received in the 1976 Lockheed payoff scandal.

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