TOKYO - Toshihiro Nikai, 81, the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, on Tuesday became the longest-serving occupant of the ruling party's No. 2 post at 1,498 days, breaking the record held by Kakuei Tanaka who was the prime minister in the 1970s.
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