Editing Noboru Takeshita (section)

==Early life and education==
Noboru Takeshita was born on 26 February 1924, in present-day [[Unnan]], [[Shimane Prefecture]],<ref name=":0" /> the only son of Yūzō Takeshita, a [[sake]] brewer, and his first wife, Yuiko.<ref name="economist">{{cite news |date=22 June 2000 |title=Noboru Takeshita |newspaper=The Economist |url=http://www.economist.com/node/81518 |access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref> His family had been sake brewers for generations,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jin |first1=Ikkō |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53492518 |title=Keibatsu : tokken kaikyū no seisui no keifu |last2=神一行 |date=2002 |publisher=Kadokawa Shoten |isbn=4-04-353306-3 |edition=Kaitei shinpan |pages=185 |oclc=53492518}}</ref> and Takeshita was the 20th head of the Takeshita brewing family.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-14 |title=株式会社竹下本店 {{!}} 島根県酒造組合 {{!}} 日本酒発祥の地『島根』 |url=https://shimane-sake.or.jp/sakebrewery/takeshita/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Shimane Prefecture Sake Brewery Association 島根県酒造組合 |language=ja}}</ref> Both his father Yūzō and his grandfather Gizō had been men of high repute in the region, and Takeshita followed in their footsteps and decided to become a politician when he was in middle school.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/675067567 |title=Ware banshi ni ataisu : Dokyumento takeshita noboru |date=2002 |publisher=新潮社 |others=Tatsuya Iwase, 達哉 岩瀬 |isbn=4-10-131031-9 |pages=88 |oclc=675067567}}</ref>

Takeshita attended [[Waseda University]] in [[Tokyo]].<ref name=":0">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1343904/Noboru-Takeshita.html "Noboru Takeshita"] ''The Telegraph'' (London). 20 June 2000.</ref>

He married Masae Takeuchi prior to joining the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] to serve as an instructor during [[World War II]].<ref name="latobit" /> His wife committed suicide while he was away for the war, which author Jacob Schlesinger argued made Takeshita obsessive about his composure and highly reserved about showing anger to others.<ref name="economist" />

After the war, he remarried, to Naoko Endō, a distant relative, worked as an English teacher and managed a high school judo team before entering politics in 1951.<ref name="latobit" /><ref name="economist" /> As a young judo competitor, he was known as "master of the draw" for his ability to avoid easy victories over weaker opponents and to avert defeat by stronger opponents.<ref name="economist" />