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.

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.

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.

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.

In 2005, Koizumi led the LDP to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern Japanese history.

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 ).

On 24 April 2001, Koizumi was elected president of the LDP.

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.

* The faction was suppressed by Heisei Seisaku Kenkyukai and Kochikai from 1960 to 1990 but because of a failure of the Heisei Seisaku Kenkyukai and Kochikai leadership it led the LDP from 2002 to 2008, mainly under Junichiro Koizumi.

The move was widely seen as a blunt and effective attack by Junichiro Koizumi on the old guard LDP leadership.

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.

The DPJ also criticized the reforms proposed by Koizumi and the LDP ’ s sluggishness in their implementation, as well as the LDP's position on Iraq while steering clear on other foreign issues.

Although the LDP failed to secure a simple majority, on November 19, the Diet appointed Junichiro Koizumi the Prime Minister in its short special session and, within a month, the LDP regained a majority by absorbing the Conservative Party.

young LDP reformers, Taku Yamasaki and Jun ' ichirō Koizumi.

Jun ' ichirō Koizumi, the only member of YKK undamaged by the events of November 2001, finally gained control of the LDP.

* Risa Koizumi, a character from the anime and manga series Lovely Complex

The idea of the " Three-Day System " came from Miyamoto and Koizumi.

In addition, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi began his political career as a secretary to Fukuda, and the two were very close in their political and personal lives from the 1970s onward ( Fukuda was the best man at Koizumi's wedding ).

One of Ishii ´ s main supporters inside the army was Colonel Chikahiko Koizumi, who later became Japan's Health Minister from 1941 to 1945.

* September 25-During a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, when a reporter asked if the United States should help Afghan people liberate themselves from Taliban rule, president George W. Bush said, " We're not into nation-building ; we're focused on justice.

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.

Koizumi assuming the presidency meant that for the first time since the 1985 privatization neither president nor chairman was from the ministry of finance.

* Itsuki Koizumi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

' ( from ' Slapstick on the Precipice: The Ascent of Koizumi Junichiro ' by Alex Shishin ).

He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi from September 27, 2004 to October 31, 2005.

** 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 ").

Jun ' ya Koizumi built an airfield in Kagoshima prefecture in 1944, from which kamikaze pilots flew to their deaths in World War II.

Koizumi was purged from politics by the Allied occupation government in the late 1940s, but returned to the Diet in 1952.

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.

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.

Koizumi also began learning English from a neighbour who had been to America.

Apart from teaching judo, Koizumi was also a consultant to the Victoria and Albert Museum on Oriental lacquerware

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

Under Prime Minister Koizumi, he served in a number of positions, including the Financial Reconstruction Commission, the National Public Safety Commission, and ultimately as Minister of Finance from September 22, 2003 to September 26, 2006.

* Politician Junichiro Koizumi, Former Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

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

Following the nuclear accident at Tokai, Ibaraki in 1999, physicists Masuchika Kohno and Yoshinobu Koizumi showed how this coin could be used to estimate neutron dosage to the surrounding population, by measuring its zinc isotope ratios.

In July 2002, the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ordered that strict amakudari be ended, because of its association with corruption between business and politics.

In the previous lower-house election ( 2003 ) and upper-house election ( 2004 ), the Democratic Party of Japan ( DPJ ) had performed handsomely, while the LDP was barely able to keep its majorities with a reduced number of seats despite the popularity of Koizumi.

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.