Makiko Tanaka is appointed to the post of education minister . Her father oversaw the normalization of relations with China 40 years ago . Her father , Kakuei Tanaka , was prime minister in 1972 when Tokyo and Beijing resumed diplomatic relations decades after Japan 's occupation of large swathes of eastern China in the 1930s and 40s . Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a war over a group of remote villages .
Makiko Tanaka is appointed to the post of education minister . Her father oversaw the normalization of relations with China 40 years ago . Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a war over a group of remote villages .