Ex-prosecutor in charge of Lockheed scandal Takase dies

Ex-prosecutor in charge of Lockheed scandal Takase dies

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Reiji Takase, a former chief of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, who died on April 4, 2011, at the age of 94. Takase played a key role in the investigation of a political scandal involving the U.S. aircraft maker Lockheed Corp. and then Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the late 1970s.

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