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.

Since 1972, Koizumi is the only Prime Minister to have served more than five years in office.

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The then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi commented, " It is a natural idea to treat the national anthem importantly ".

Koizumi ( 小泉 " small fountain ") is a Japanese family name.

As of 2012 the chairman is Hiroshi Kimura and the CEO is Mitsuomi Koizumi.

Takashi Koizumi ( 小泉堯史 Koizumi Takashi ) ( November 6, 1944, Mito ) is a Japanese film director.

This is reflected by the protests against the visit to Yasukuni Shrine by the then-Japanese PM, Junichiro Koizumi.

is a Japanese politician, member of the Diet of Japan, and Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs under the government of Junichiro Koizumi.

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.

He is a recipient of the Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Yasuo Fukuda, who served under Yoshirō Mori and Junichiro Koizumi, is the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in history, having spent over 1, 289 days in office.

This exclusivity is the reason why foreign journalists were not allowed to attend the police conference on the disappearance and murder of the British woman Lucie Blackman, and that when Prime Minister Koizumi visited the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, non-members of the kisha club were not allowed to accompany him.

** 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 ").

* Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is a longtime Presley fan who has released a CD of his favorite Presley songs with his own commentary.

Kotaro Koizumi ( 小泉 孝太郎 Koizumi Kōtarō, born July 10, 1978 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the former Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto.

Junichiro Koizumi, a former prime minister, to precede Shinzo Abe is a conservative in the foreign policy arena, and receives support from the neoconservative legislators, but is not himself considered a neoconservative.

It continues to explain that Mr. Koizumi is now close to getting a vote on a bill that will — eventually — turn it over to the private sector.

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.

* 1942 – Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician

* Koizumi Matajirō ( 小泉 又次郎, 1865 – 1951 ), Japanese politician and the father-in-law of Junya Koizumi

is a conservative Japanese politician who served as Minister of Finance from 2003 to 2006, in the cabinet of Jun ' ichirō Koizumi.

is a Japanese economist and retired politician, last serving as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications and Minister of State for Privatization of the Postal Services in the cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

**** Shinjiro Koizumi ( 1981-) – politician, second son of Junichiro.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

His father, Junya Koizumi, was director general of the Japan Defense Agency and a member of the Diet.

His grandfather, Koizumi Matajirō, was Minister of Posts and Telecommunications under Prime Ministers Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki and an early advocate of postal privatization.

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.