Yasuhiro Nakasone 中曾根康弘
（重定向自Nakasone, Yasuhiro）
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![American President Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone having lunch at Nakasone's country residence in Hinode, Tokyo, Japan in 1983.](/Images/godic/202501/29/President_Reagan_and_Prime_Minister_Yasuhiro_Nakasone0749.jpg")
![Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (left) at the funeral of Ronald Reagan with former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.](/Images/godic/202501/29/Mulroney_Thatcher_and_Gorbachev_at_Reagan's_funeral0750.jpg")
Yasuhiro Nakasone(中曽根 康弘Nakasone Yasuhiro, born May 27, 1918) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A contemporary of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister. At age 97, Nakasone is currently the oldest living former Japanese prime minister.