Junichiro Koizumi | |
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小泉 純一郎 | |
.jpg) Official portrait, 2001 | |
| Prime Minister of Japan | |
| In office 26 April 2001 – 26 September 2006 | |
| Monarch | Akihito |
| Preceded by | Yoshirō Mori |
| Succeeded by | Shinzo Abe |
| President of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
| In office 20 April 2001 – 20 September 2006 | |
| Vice President | Taku Yamasaki |
| Secretary-General | |
| Preceded by | Yoshirō Mori |
| Succeeded by | Shinzo Abe |
| Minister of Health and Welfare | |
| In office 7 November 1996 – 29 July 1998 | |
| Prime Minister | Ryutaro Hashimoto |
| Preceded by | Naoto Kan |
| Succeeded by | Sohei Miyashita |
| In office 27 December 1988 – 10 August 1989 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Takao Fujimoto |
| Succeeded by | Saburo Toida |
| Minister of Post and Telecommunications | |
| In office 12 December 1992 – 20 July 1993 | |
| Prime Minister | Kiichi Miyazawa |
| Preceded by | Hideo Watanabe |
| Succeeded by | Kiichi Miyazawa |
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| In office 10 December 1972 – 21 July 2009 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Succeeded by | Shinjirō Koizumi |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 January 1942 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic |
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| Parent(s) | Jun'ya Koizumi (father) Yoshie Koizumi (mother) |
| Relatives | Koizumi Matajirō (grandfather) |
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Junichiro Koizumi (/kɔɪˈzuːmi/ koy-ZOO-mee;[1][2][3] 小泉 純一郎, Koizumi Jun'ichirō [ko.iꜜzɯmi (d)ʑɯɰ̃.iꜜtɕiɾoː]; born 8 January 1942) is a Japanese retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009. He is the sixth-longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history.[4]
Widely seen as a maverick leader of the LDP upon his election to the position in 2001, Koizumi became known as a neoliberal economic reformer, focusing on reducing Japan's government debt and the privatisation of its postal service. In the 2005 election, 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, and through his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine that fueled diplomatic tensions with neighbouring China and South Korea. Koizumi resigned as prime minister in 2006.
Although Koizumi maintained a low profile for several years after he left office, he returned to national attention in 2013 as an advocate for abandoning nuclear power in Japan, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which contrasted with the pro-nuclear views espoused by the LDP governments both during and after Koizumi's term in office.[5]
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- ^ "Koizumi". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ "Koizumi". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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