Former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, center, with IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, left, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, attend the inauguration ceremony for new South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, at the National Assembly in Seoul in this Feb. 25, 1998 photo. Takeshita died of respiratory difficulty at a Tokyo hospital early Monday, June 19, 2000 after a year-long hospitalization. He was 76. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)