Obuchi had been hospitalized due to "fatigue from overwork, " announced the chief cabinet secretary, Aoki Mikio.
Aoki, a former Olympic wrestler from Tokyo, was inseparable from the Benihana (No. 123) name.
That is, until May 1998, when an insider trading investigation into Aoki became public.
The big cases, involving construction companies such as Aoki and Fujita, were highly unpopular.
His daughters, Ming Lee and Aoki Lee, spend most of their days with Lee, their mother.
"CableLabs is moving too slowly, " says Tony Aoki, the director of Sony's set-top-box division.
"We cannot allow a political vacuum even for a moment, " said Aoki, who was briefly acting prime minister.
The company didn't even issue a press release, though Aoki sent out a personal one four days later.
More to the point, the mild-mannered Mr Aoki, though well-liked in parliament, commands little respect from the party rank and file.
Aoki used to fly around in a helium balloon shaped like a Benihana chef, and raced Benihana speedboats with bright red logos.
Perhaps they were turned off by founder Rocky Aoki's reputation for paying greater attention to powerboats and pretty women than to his company's performance.
He sent a brief notice to the restaurants, as well as to investors, making it clear that Aoki's troubles had nothing to do with Benihana.
Benihana shares jumped 75 cents the day Aoki announced his resignation.
Courtney Aoki, 20, of Buena Park was shot multiple times early Tuesday in the home where gunman Ali Syed, 20, lived, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
The prolific lineup that produced an NL-best 776 runs returns largely intact, with speed in Carlos Gomez and Norichika Aoki and power in Corey Hart and Aramis Ramirez.
Morihiro Aoki, 38, is a television company employee in Hiroshima.
Aoki first told Schwartz about the investigation in May 1998.
Insiders expect the present chief cabinet secretary, Mikio Aoki, aged 65, an upper-house member from Mr Takeshita's district in western Japan, to take over the faction for the time being.
Soon after, at a prescheduled meeting at the Miami, Fla. headquarters, Aoki offered to step down as chairman, chief executive and board member, a few weeks prior to being indicted.
"I thought it was a sad, unfortunate event, but it had nothing to do with the company, " says Joel Schwartz, Benihana's president of 16 years, who had to fill Aoki's shoes.
Jaded investors might be turned off of the stock because of the reputation of its mercurial founder, Rocky Aoki, known for his powerboat racing and philandering more than his attention to management.
Benihana first began seeking a buyer in 2010, when a feud erupted that pitted the children of founder Rocky Aoki against board directors in disagreements over how to help the nearly 100-unit chain survive the downturn.
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