Former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, credited with helping pull Japan out of its worst economic downturn since the war, died Sunday at a Tokyo hospital, six weeks after suffering a stroke and falling into a coma, government officials said. He was 62.
The officials said Obuchi died at 4:07 p.m. at the Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, 43 days after the stroke.
The wake was to be held from 7 p.m. today and a private funeral, only attended by close relatives, will be held Tuesday.