The only minister retained in his position from the previous Koizumi cabinet was Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who had been one of Abe's competitors for the LDP presidency.

* 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

On 24 April 2001, riding a wave of grassroots desire for change, maverick politician Junichiro Koizumi defeated former Prime Minister Hashimoto and other party stalwarts on a platform of economic and political reform.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

After the Upper House rejected privatization, Koizumi scheduled nationwide elections for September 11, 2005.

Koizumi subsequently won this election, gaining the necessary supermajority and a mandate for reform, and in October 2005, the bill was passed to privatize Japan Post in 2007.

In the general elections of December 1972, Koizumi was elected as a member of the Lower House for the Kanagawa 11th district.

In 1994, with the LDP in opposition, Koizumi became part of a new LDP faction, Shinseiki, made up of younger and more motivated parliamentarians led by Taku Yamasaki, Koichi Kato and Koizumi, a group popularly dubbed " YKK " ( after the YKK Group well known for manufacturing zippers ).

Within Japan, Koizumi pushed for new ways to revitalise the moribund economy, aiming to act against bad debts with commercial banks, privatize the postal savings system, and reorganize the factional structure of the LDP.

In the fall of 2002, Koizumi appointed Keio University economist and frequent television commentator Heizō Takenaka as Minister of State for Financial Services and head of the Financial Services Agency ( FSA ) to fix the country's banking crisis.

In addition to the privatization of Japan Post ( which many rural residents fear will reduce their access to basic services such as banking ), Koizumi also slowed down the LDP's heavy subsidies for infrastructure and industrial development in rural areas.

* Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology

Koizumi then presented these to Russian President Vladimir Putin, for each of his dogs ( Tosca, a standard Poodle, and Connie, a Labrador Retriever ), at ceremonies celebrating the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.

The script of the game was written by series newcomer Kensuke Tanabe, while Yoshiaki Koizumi was responsible for the background story explained in the instruction manual.

Shigeru Miyamoto and Yoshiaki Koizumi came up with the story that served as the basis for the script written by Mitsuhiro Takano.

Koizumi subsequently won this election, gaining the necessary supermajority and a mandate for reform, and in October 2005, the bill was passed to privatize Japan Post in 2007.

* Koizumi loses postal reform vote in Upper House, calls for new elections

Kanno has also composed music for pop artists, the most notable being Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi.

Since Prime Minister Koizumi was unable to gain more seats for the LDP based upon his high approval ratings — around 60 % — some experts believe the election has left Koizumi a weakened Prime Minister while others point out that several of the Non-partisans were really of LDP, most notably ' Kato Koichi ' and LDP had in fact maintained the number of seats.

Koizumi was responsible for the main story of Link's Awakening, provided the idea of the island in a dream, and conceived the interactions with the villagers.

Kan was the first Prime Minister of Japan since the resignation of Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 to serve for more than 1 year, with predecessors Yukio Hatoyama, Tarō Asō, Yasuo Fukuda, and Shinzō Abe either resigning prematurely or losing an election.

Koizumi was given the Best Actress award at the 1989 Yokohama Film Festival for her work in the film Kaitō Ruby.

Koizumi gained his first senior post in 1979 as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance, and his first ministerial post in 1988 as Minister of Health and Welfare under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

However, in the first poll of prefectural party organizations, Koizumi won 87 to 11 percent ; in the second vote of Diet members, Koizumi won 51 to 40 percent.

The election was the first since Koizumi was named Prime Minister in April 2001.

Tanaka was the first female foreign minister of Japan, from April 2001 to January 2002, but was fired from the cabinet after making remarks critical of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

* Kotaro Koizumi ( 小泉 孝太郎, born 1978 ), an aspiring actor and the first son of Junichiro Koizumi

* Ji Koizumi, a fictional character ( first name )

* Gen Nakatani, Minister of State for Defense in the first cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi.

* In an attempt to ease recent tensions between the two Asian economic powerhouses in the Japanese history textbook controversy, Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi publicly expressed his " deep remorse " for actions of Japanese troops in China during World War II for the first time in a decade.

In the mid-1950s, Koizumi returned to the Tokyo area for the first time in half a century, finding a vastly different place than the farmlands he had left

On 19 September 1954, the Budokwai moved to new, larger premises ; shortly after this, Koizumi returned to Japan for the first time in 50 years.

Lafcadio Hearn with his wife Koizumi Setsu and their first son.

At first, they contributed a song " Tsuki Hitoshizuku " for a pop idol / actress Kyoko Koizumi ( who also wrote part of the lyrics with them ).

He became Vice Minister of Agriculture under the first Koizumi cabinet.

At exactly the same time a meteorite shower draws the attention of Professor Murai ( Hiroshi Koizumi ), who along with his team of scientists strikes out into the wilderness to examine the largest of the meteors, which has magnetic properties.

Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister of Japan at the time, was quoted saying that Bae was more popular in Japan than himself.

Kotaro Koizumi has two younger brothers, Shinjiro Koizumi, and Yoshinaga Miyamoto, who was not born at the time of his parents ' divorce in 1982.

Koizumi was born on 8 July 1885 in the village of Komatsuka Oaza ( around 20 miles north of Tokyo at that time ; the entire area is now part of metropolitan Tokyo ) in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Biographer Richard Bowen notes that, unusually, " Koizumi was not interned and indeed suffered no restrictions " during this time ( p. 319 ).

The incident brought Sino-Japanese relations to its lowest point since the Koizumi administration.

The Koizumi family has been prominent in Japanese politics since the early 1900s.