Word: junichiro
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...Emperor Hirohito. (Ford's own pants hadn't been packed.) And in 1992, the first President Bush famously vomited and collapsed in the middle of a sumptuous Japanese dinner. The current President Bush's 16-hour layover in Tokyo, beginning last Friday, proved more convivial, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent pledge of $1.5 billion to rebuild Iraq...
...Does He Have What It Takes? Re "Koizumi's Second Act" [sept. 22], the Koizumi era heralds the beginning of image politics in Japan. Junichiro Koizumi has named new members to his Cabinet while leaving the key Minister for Financial Services and for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Heizo Takenaka, in place?a move that was seen as showing Koizumi's commitment to banking reform. Koizumi is a man of great integrity, but a lot will be expected from him if he is elected to a second term in November. Kazunari Iwamoto Ibaraki, Japan...
...Defense of Democracy (FDD), signed a peace deal in Pretoria. The agreement, which specifies how the FDD will be incorporated into the transitional government, the army and the police, is the latest attempt to end a decade of bloody ethnic conflict. Test of Strength JAPAN Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the Lower House of Parliament and called a snap national election for Nov. 9, in what he called a test of popular support for his economic reforms. If Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party can extend its slim parliamentary majority (it currently holds 244 of 480 seats) he will be able...
...Politically, this wave of economic euphoria has been a huge boon to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He boasted frequently about the buoyant economy during his successful campaign to win re-election two weeks ago as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (and, thus, Prime Minister). As he tells it, the healthier statistics are proof that his structural economic reforms are working. As a sign of the increasing political capital that the rebound has provided him, Koizumi quickly shuffled his Cabinet, reappointing his controversial finance czar Heizo Takenaka and replacing the ailing 81-year-old Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa with...
...ELECTED. Junichiro Koizumi, 61, as president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP); in Tokyo. Having retained the party's presidency by a landslide, Koizumi will lead the LDP in coming elections for the lower house of the Diet, most likely in November...