THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
December 22, 2021 at 14:00 JST
Yasuhiro Nakasone, former prime minister, far left, holds talks with Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi deputy prime minister, second from left, along with Koko Sato, group leader of the Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers, second from right, in Baghdad in November 1990. (Pool)
When former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited Iraq during the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990, he spoke frankly with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, urging him to pull out of Kuwait within a month or risk U.S. military involvement. [Read More]
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