Former Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi still ranks high in public opinion polls as the most suitable lawmaker to become prime minister, but his political clout no longer seems to be what it once was.
August -- Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, becoming the first prime minister to visit there in five years.
Abstract: Among both academics and the general public, especially those of the older generation, Shinzo
Koizumi (1888-1966) remains well known as a former president of Keio University and tutor of the future Japanese Emperor.
Privatization of the heavily indebted highway operators is one of Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi's flagship reform pledges.
Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi did not prefer Fukui, but he had no viable alternative.
Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung plan to sign a treaty to boost mutual direct investments next Friday in Seoul, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.
Terrorism removed a barrier to government spending in general, says Kei
Koizumi of AAAS, and that allowed Congress to support some science projects not directly related to national security.
Last April,
Koizumi became Japan's eighth prime minister in 10 years.
Sales of a book of photographs of Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi remain steady and many of those buying it are female.
Sisira Edirippulige discusses the reasons for Jun'ichiro
Koizumi's sudden emergence as Japanese leader and outlines some of the obstacles to his reform programme.
Massive structural reforms and an economic rebirth are at the top of Japan's new Prime Minister, Junichiro
Koizumi's list.
Prime Minister Taro Aso's cash handout scheme is now on the line, after his recent negative comments about postal privatization angered one of Japan's most influential lawmakers -- former Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi, who spearheaded the privatization.