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		Koizumi moved the LDP away from its traditional rural agrarian base toward a more urban, neoliberal core, as Japan's population grew in major cities and declined in less populated areas, although under current purely geographical districting, rural votes in Japan are still many times more powerful than urban ones.
		Koizumi was popular among many Japanese for his assertive foreign policy stances, such as the deployment of Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, an unrepentant stance towards China and South Korea over his Yasukuni shrine visits, the pursuit of pro-active negotiations with North Korea, and emphasizing Japan's claims against Russia over the Kuril Islands.
		Koizumi's government also introduced a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to ministry status, but this bill was not passed in the 2006 session and will be deferred to the next session under the watch of Koizumi's successor.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Junichiro_Koizumi (2698 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Japan News and Japanese Business and Economy
		Koizumi took a political gamble by dissolving the Lower House of the diet, Japan's parliament, on August 8, only hours after postal privatization bills, the centerpiece of his reform program, were voted down by the Upper House by a vote of 125 to 108.
		Koizumi apparently hopes to produce the evolving political drama as a battle between reformist forces, represented by the LDP and New Komeito, and anti-reformist ones, represented by the DPJ, other much smaller opposition parties and rebellious LDP lawmakers.
		Junya Koizumi, a former defense agency chief, was born in Kagoshima, a southern Japanese prefecture that used to be the territory of the Satsuma Domain during the Edo Period.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/GH18Dh01.html (3022 words)

	JPRI - Members in the Media
		As everything indicates, this is a highly personalized effort by the Koizumi family of politicians to resolve the leadership struggle between politicians and bureaucrats that was created 60 years ago by a flawed Occupation-era policy.
		Koizumi's grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, was once a minister of posts, and Prime Minister Koizumi has pushed for postal reform since he was posts minister in 1992.
		In particular, Koizumi, who has close ties to the banking community and the Ministry of Finance, is very concerned with retaining postal funds for financing his growing level of deficit spending.
	www.jpri.org /members/morse_JT_08-31-05.html (1062 words)

	Guardian \| Lion king and the politics of pain (part 2)
		Koizumi won the family seat in 1972 and he has since been re-elected 10 times, pushing him higher and higher up the LDP hierarchy.
		She is herself the firebrand daughter of former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, rivalling Koizumi in popularity and in her ability to tap into a well of public discontent.
		Bix claims Koizumi is determined to make Japan a military power, restoring the emperor as the head of state and abolishing the constitutional provision guaranteeing pacifism.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4248688-108018,00.html (1905 words)

	MeriNews.com -Indo-Japanese relation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For the uninitiated, Koizumi is not only one of the longest serving prime ministers in the country but also the one who changed the way politics had been played in Japan.
		His father, Junya Koizumi was minister of defence and his grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi was Minister of Posts and Telecom and an early advocate of postal privatisation.
		Koizumi served in four Cabinets between 1979 and 1998 in the capacity of Finance minister, Post and Telecommunication minister, and Health, Labour and Welfare minister.
	www.merinews.com /koizumi.jsp (454 words)

	Worldandnation: In Japan, insider as maverick wins
		Koizumi rose to the top of the governing Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday by exploiting his bad-boy image within a political organization whose rank-and-file members, like the public at large, are longing for a plainspoken leader with charisma and a vision of a new, politically and economically vibrant Japan.
		His grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, was a farmer's son from south of Yokohama who became a plasterer and later a member of the lower house of Parliament.
		Junichiro Koizumi -- born Jan. 8, 1942 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture -- was one of the six children of Yoshie and Junya Koizumi.
	www.sptimes.com /News/042501/Worldandnation/In_Japan__insider_as_.shtml (850 words)

	Ethio-Japanese Relations Since 1933
		Kanagawa Prefecture on 8 January 1942, to Junya Koizumi, a director general of the Defense Agency and a third-generation Diet member, and was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.
		Koizumi became leader of his party on his third attempt on April 24, 2001.
		Koizumi claims that he visits the shrine as a private citizen and does not do so in endorsement of any political stance other than respecting the war dead.
	www.waltainfo.com /CurrentIssues/Apr/Ethio_Japanese_Relations.htm (1633 words)

	Koizumi steals the show -DAWN - International; September 12, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The ‘Koizumi theatre’, as the prime minister’s election campaign became known, stole the show with a crushing victory in lower house elections set to reshape the political landscape.
		Koizumi argues that breaking up the post office, which is effectively the world’s biggest financial institution, would stimulate the private sector, change the political culture and even boost Japan’s diplomacy.
		Koizumi has nurtured a friendship with Bush, who calls him one of his best friends abroad, and describes the alliance with the United States as the core of Japan’s diplomacy.
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/12/int6.htm (493 words)

	l'express
		Koizumi was chosen leader by members of the 480-seat lower house, where his Liberal Democratic Party took a commanding 296 seats in the general election.
		Koizumi, who first took office in April 2001, was chosen leader by members of the 480-seat lower house, where his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) took a commanding 296 seats in the September 11 general election, ensuring he would remain prime minister.
		Koizumi, who has said he has no plans to stay on once his tenure as party president expires next September, has said he will quickly re-submit the postal bills and he is expected to reshuffle his cabinet once they are passed.
	www.lexpress.mu /archive_semaine/display_article.php?news_id=50625 (962 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi Biography & Description \| Woo Factor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Koizumi is popular among many Japanese for his assertive foreign policy stances, such as the deployment of Japanese Self-Defence Forces to Iraq, an unrepentant stance towards China and South Korea over his Yasukuni war shrine visits, the pursuit of pro-active negotiations with North Korea, and emphasizing Japan's claims against Russia over the Kuril Islands.
		Koizumi's government also introduced a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to ministry status, but this bill was not passed in the 2006 session and will be deferred to the next session under the watch of Koizumi's successor."Diet closes for summer, puts lid on Koizumi legacy," ''Japan Times'' (registration required), June 17, 2006.
		Although Koizumi signs the shrine's visitor book as "Junichiro Koizumi, the Prime Minister of Japan", he claims that the visits to the shrine are as a private citizen and not an endorsement of any political stance."Koizumi not backing down on Yasukuni," ''The Japan Times'' (registration required), Jan. 26, 2006.
	www.woofactor.com /celebrities/Junichiro_Koizumi/biography (2473 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi and his cabinet
		On April 24, 2001, Junichiro Koizumi was elected as the 20th President of the LDP, gaining 298 of 487 votes, with former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto receiving 155 votes and Taro Aso, Minister of State for economic and fiscal policy, winning 31 votes.
		Koizumi is considered a maverick although he has served 10 terms as a member of the House of Representatives.
		Koizumi presented his favorite plan to privatize the post office which helps to deliver the LDP’s organized rural vote through the influence of the chiefs of local post offices and their families.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo18/koizumi_japan.htm (2416 words)

	Junichiro Koizumi - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 2005, Koizumi led the LDP to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern Japanese history.Koizumi aalso attracted international attention through his deployment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, and his visits to Yasukuni Shrine which led to diplomatic tensions with China and South Korea.
		Miyamoto was unhappy with her lifestyle and Koizumi dd not see Miyamoto as a viable political wife.Two of his three sons (Kotaro Koizumi and Shinjiro Koizumi) were kept in Koizumi's custody and raised by one of Koizumi's sisters.
		While there, Koizumi briefly sang a few bars of his favourite Elvis runes, whilst warmly impersonating Presley, mimicking his characteristic hand movements and leg shakes, and wearing Presley's trademark oversized golden sunglasses.Koizumi also seems to be a fan of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
	www.wikileasing.com /0/Junichiro_Koizumi.html (1450 words)

	Trans-Pacific Radio » Complete Transcript for Seijigiri Inaugural :: Independent Podcasts from Tokyo, Japan - ...
		Koizumi framed the issue, which the DPJ also supported, in such a way that there was no way for them to oppose him.
		Like Koizumi, he’s also on the side of those who’d like to see an amendment to the pacifist Article 9 of the Constitution, which is probably the article best-known outside of Japan, which states that Japan forever renounces war as a means of settling disputes.
		Koizumi stuck to his guns over this issue and when the postal reform bill failed to pass in the upper house, Koizumi dissolved the more powerful lower house and called a general election, the snap election.
	www.transpacificradio.com /2006/08/26/complete-transcript-for-seijigiri-inaugural/trackback (4693 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Junichiro Koizumi
		Koizumi moved the LDP away from its traditional rural agrarian base toward a more urban, neoliberal core, as Japan's population grew in major cities and declined in less populated areas.
		Although Koizumi did not initially campaign on the issue of defense reform, he approved the expansion of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and in October 2001 they were given greater scope to operate outside of the country.
		However, Koizumi was criticized for actions which allegedly ran contrary to this expression of remorse (e.g.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Junichiro_Koizumi (2464 words)

	INSIDE JoongAng Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Prime Minister Koizumi's grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, was a vice chairman of the lower house of the Diet and the minister of post from the 1920s until Japan's surrender in 1945.
		Matajiro Koizumi was one of the prevailing political figures of "Showa fascism."
		The trio of Koizumi, Abe and Aso, the descendants of major war figures, may have been born with the genes for fascism and nationalism.
	joongangdaily.joins.com /200604/27/200604272159496409900090109012.html (796 words)

	characterguy - In Japan, politics is a family affair
		Koizumi, for instance, risked an election to pursue the break up of Japan's giant post office.
		His grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, had tried in vain to privatize the institution too as postal minister before dying in 1951.
		His daughter, Makiko Tanaka, was a foreign minister under Koizumi and her son has flirted with politics too.
	characterguy.livejournal.com /104483.html (674 words)

	BW Online \| May 7, 2001 \| A Prime Minister with Pizzazz
		Koizumi is also that rarest of birds in Japanese politics, a bachelor.
		Koizumi was a graduate student at the University of London in 1969 when his father died.
		Koizumi ran again for a Diet seat in 1972 and has since served 10 consecutive terms, working his way up the Liberal Democratic Party hierarchy to a senior position in the faction led by late Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and then Yoshiro Mori, who has just stepped down as Premier.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_19/b3731007.htm (684 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Japan
		Koizumi -- Japan's longest-serving prime minister in two decades -- won another term even after his public approval rating fell to 43 percent on July 10 from 80 percent when he took office in 2001, according to polls by the Nihon Keizai newspaper.
		Koizumi was born in 1942, the height of World War II, in Kanagawa prefecture southwest of Tokyo.
		Koizumi defies the stereotype created by his predecessors of bland Japanese leaders who lack distinctive personalities, says Edward Lincoln, a senior fellow in Asia and Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aOPP2NlrezI4&refer=japan (1593 words)

	TIME.com: Inside The Outsider -- Sep. 17, 2001 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Junichiro Koizumi is a 59-year-old career foot soldier of the Liberal Democratic Party, which, except for one brief period, has ruled Japan for the past 46 years.
		To help ease the burden of the government's debt, estimated to be as high as $5.5 trillion by some economists, he has proposed cutting the budget 10% and shifting spending from public-works projects to education, job training and environmental cleanup.
		Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010917-174194,00.html (1089 words)

	Kancho Assassin
		Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's thus-far failed efforts to privatize Japan Post follow in the footsteps of his grandfather Matajiro Koizumi's (failed) efforts to privatize Japan's telecommunications infrastructure in the first half of the 20th century.
		Matajiro Koizumi, who was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, was nicknamed "the tattoo minister" because he had a dragon tattooed all over his body and reportedly was not shy about displaying it.
		Tomiichi Murayama of course was "the prime minister with the eyebrows", Ryutaro Hashimoto was "the prime minister with the mistress who was a Chinese spy" and Yoshiro Mori was "the prime minister with the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark"...
	kanchoassassin.blogspot.com (3720 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The answer is that the post office â“ an enormous institution once run by the prime ministerâs grandfather, Matajiro, and which employs one in three of all public servants â“ has become a symbol of all that is wrong with Japan for Mr Koizumi.
		Mr Koizumiâs motives are thus political and financial.
		Mr Koizumiâs reform risks alienating not only the public, the unions and his own party but also the private sector in whose name the privatisation is being carried out.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Japan/041012report4.txt (910 words)

	RE: Banzai ABE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And Koizumiâs grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, is a former Minister and his father was a member of the Diet and the director general of the Japan Defense Agency.
		Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist.
		Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.
	www.crisscross.com /forum/m_866985/mpage_3/key_/tm.htm#873969 (3296 words)

	Koizumi - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Koizumi (小泉) is a Japanese local and surname.
		Matajiro Koizumi, grandfather of Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
		This side is a term clarifying for the distinction of several terms named the same word.
	cleverpedia.com /Koizumi (80 words)

	Japan's PM tightens grip on power after winning election gamble - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 'Koizumi theatre', as the prime minister's election campaign became known, stole the show with a crushing victory in lower house elections set to reshape the political landscape, according to exit polls.
		Koizumi's belief in the US alliance and his passion -- some say obsession -- with the post office are both in his blood.
		Even when he was parliamentary vice minister of finance in 1979, Koizumi championed the privatization of the post office, whose 25,000 branches are used by many Japanese to deposit savings and insurance.
	www.forbes.com /home/feeds/afx/2005/09/11/afx2217156.html (826 words)

	japangovernment.html
		Japan’s Prime Minister- Junichiro Koizumi has been a member of the House of Representativessince 1972.
		Prime Minister Koizumi comes from afamily, which is involved in politics.
		His father, Junya Koizumi, is Director General of the Defense Agency and his grandfather, Matajiro Koizumi, is the Minister of Post and Telecommunications.
	www.ri.net /schools/East_Greenwich/Cole/japangovernment.html (742 words)

	Aikidojournal.de - Aikido Journal
		He also has his appearance on his side: he is said to resemble Hollywood star Richard Gere, who agrees they look similar.
		In the haiku poems, Toyotomi Hideyoshi said, "If cuckoos do not sing, I will make them do so." Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, said, "If cuckoos do not sing, I will wait for them to do so." By comparison, Oda Nobunaga said, "If cuckoos do not sing, I will kill them."
		Opinion polls suggest that Koizumi´s gamble of turning on rebels within his own LDP is paying off.
	www.aikidojournal.de /index4.php3?Page=infos/news/show.php3&ID=655 (2949 words)

	The Big Takeover: Tokyo Rock City: Let's Not Bring Down the Government :
		And while his trip last month with GEORGE W. to the hallowed halls of Graceland certainly made headlines, the most lasting symbol of Koizumi’s love for the King will probably be the life-size bronze statue he and Masaya helped erect in Harajuku.
		I visited the statue just a few days ago, and although it’s tucked away in a hard-to-find backstreet, there was plenty of rock ‘n’ roll to be found in the surrounding areas.
		I haven’t ever heard of a world leader who has made rock music such a pivotal and public part of his or her life, and I haven’t seen kids so unabashedly amped about rock as I have on my trip.
	www.bigtakeover.com /essays/tokyo-rock-city-lets-not-bring-down-the-government (688 words)

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