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

Koizumi and privatization
This privatization, spearheaded by Junichiro Koizumi, started in 2007 following generations of debate.
After the Upper House rejected privatization, Koizumi scheduled nationwide elections for September 11, 2005.
His grandfather, Koizumi Matajirō, was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications under Prime Ministers Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki and an early advocate of postal privatization.
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.
As in many cases, the likely cause of the dissolution of the direct-hire situation draws back to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi who took a hard-line stance on privatization ( e. g. Japan Post ) and the idea of allowing local governments more flexibility in deciding how to spend their budgets.
Koizumi won a resounding victory, and the privatization bill was passed in the next session.
Koizumi assuming the presidency meant that for the first time since the 1985 privatization neither president nor chairman was from the ministry of finance.
Challenged to explain this apparent U. S. government intervention in a domestic matter, Koizumi merely expressed his satisfaction that Takenaka had been befriended by such an important figure … It is hard to overestimate the scale of the opportunity offered to U. S. and global finance capital by the privatization of the Postal Savings System.
Koizumi's grandson, Jun ' ichirō Koizumi, served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 and inherited his grandfather's idea of postal privatization ; Junichiro had himself been Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in 1992-93 under Kiichi Miyazawa.
Prime Minister Koizumi had tried to make the election a referendum on the privatization of Japan Post and reforms that follow, saying that he would step down if the ruling bloc fails to secure a majority.
The party is headed by the former Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Kōki Kobayashi ( deputy leader ), Takashi Aoyama, Makoto Taki, and Hiroyuki Arai, who left the Liberal Democratic Party in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ’ s postal privatization drive.
In 2005 she gained attention by voicing opposition to the postal privatization proposal pushed by Prime Minister Koizumi, an issue which dominated headlines that year.
When asked about the future of the postal privatization bill, she expressed her hope that it will be stopped, adding ( in English ), " I don't know there will be political confusion, but one thing I can tell is, Mr. Koizumi is no longer dynamite.
Koizumi kept Noda and other privatization opponents off of the LDP ticket.
Following the snap elections in which Koizumi won a mandate on privatization with the LDP gaining an overwhelming majority, Noda changed her stance.

Koizumi and major
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 and part
On January 20, 2006, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi devoted part of his annual keynote speech to the controversy, pledging to submit a bill allowing women to ascend the throne to ensure that the succession continues in the future in a stable manner.
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 ).
** For the live performances on the Japanese part of their World Tour, Casiopea joined forces with 2 Funk Brass Sections, " Spectrum " ( who were famous in Japan from 1978 to their break-up in 1981 ) and " Top Horn " ( who once played a Live Version of Koizumi Kyoko's " Wink Killer ", which is a Lyricized version of The Square's 1985 hit, " Omens of Love ").
Koizumi was born in Higashi-Kaseda, Kagoshima Prefecture ( now part of Minami-Satsuma ).
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.
At first, they contributed a song " Tsuki Hitoshizuku " for a pop idol / actress Kyoko Koizumi ( who also wrote part of the lyrics with them ).
As a part of the effort, he accompanied Koizumi to meet Kim Jong-il in 2002.

Koizumi and efforts
The recent efforts of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to establish a more interventionist foreign policy have also heightened the importance of the position.

Koizumi and government
In January 2005 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed a special panel composed of judges, university professors, and civil servants to study changes to the Imperial Household Law and to make recommendations to the government.
In 2003, then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi proposed that the government consolidate the current prefectures into about 10 regional states.
In 2002 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced the end of new town construction, although the new towns continue to receive government funding and redevelopment.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he had no intention of raising the tax during his government, but after his massive victory in the 2005 election he lifted a ban on discussing it.
During the campaign of the election of 2003, the DPJ called the election as the choice of the government between the ruling LDP-bloc and the DPJ, with Kan being presented as the alternative candidate to then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
In the case of Japanese abduction, on September 17, 2002, the North Korean government officially admitted the kidnapping of 13 Japanese citizens, at the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Japanese Prime minister Koizumi.
is a Japanese politician, member of the Diet of Japan, and Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs under the government of Junichiro Koizumi.
In October 2005 JH, the Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation, the Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation, and the Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Authority ( managing three fixed-link connections between Honshū and Shikoku ) were privatized under the reform policies of the government of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Koizumi was purged from politics by the Allied occupation government in the late 1940s, but returned to the Diet in 1952.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said he had no intention of raising the tax during his government, but after his massive victory in the 2005 election he lifted a ban on discussing it.
One of the biggest landslides in Japanese politics came as a great surprise to virtually everyone, from politicians in both government and opposition camps to political analysts and the general public to finally Junichiro Koizumi himself, who reiterated after the election that he just asked for a majority.

Koizumi and national
The then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi commented, " It is a natural idea to treat the national anthem importantly ".
In a talk with journalist Benjamin Fulford on June 19, 2008, he stated that he was arrested in the national policy investigation after he criticized an economic policy by Junichirō Koizumi and Heizō Takenaka on a television program.
He further attempted to privatize the national public broadcaster NHK but Koizumi did not agree and the attempt was stalled.
This ideal of enduring pain today for the sake of a better tomorrow, long the guiding spirit for the people of Nagaoka, gained national attention in 2001 when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi quoted the story in one of his inaugural speeches.

Koizumi and .
* 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
Shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, Koizumi suspended such plans.
However, shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, the proposal to alter the Imperial Household Law was suspended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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.
Koizumi was elected as Japan's 87th Prime Minister on 26 April 2001.
On 11 October 2003, the Prime Minister Koizumi dissolved the lower house after he was re-elected as the president of the LDP.
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.
No prime minister except Koizumi had good public support.
On 26 September 2006, new LDP President Shinzo Abe was elected by a special session of the Diet to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as Prime Minister.
" This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to strengthen global economic stability.
Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.
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.
As a parting gesture, outgoing PM Junichiro Koizumi wrote a tanka to thank his supporters.
In 2005, Koizumi led the LDP to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern Japanese history.
Koizumi also attracted international attention through his deployment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq.
Since 1972, Koizumi is the only Prime Minister to have served more than five years in office.
Koizumi is a third-generation politician.
His father, Junya Koizumi, was director general of the Japan Defense Agency and a member of the Diet.
See Koizumi family.
Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture on 8 January 1942, Koizumi was educated at Yokosuka High School and Keio University, where he studied economics.

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