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Recent newspaper reports from Singapore and Hong Kong have alleged that Masahiro Akiyama—along with former Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto—accepted bribes to negotiate Taiwanese interests into U.S.-Japan defense accords...
...Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions' grip on power was imperiled. Traditionally, Prime Ministers followed factions' wish lists for ministerial appointments; the largest group got the most positions. Koizumi ignored that, a move that particularly irritated the most powerful faction, headed by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. As a result, the factions, supportive as they are of lucrative local projects and pricey bank bailouts, have fought back and continue trying to cement the loyalty of Diet members by promising to keep the gravy train running. Koizumi himself, though once a member of the second largest faction...
...iconoclast in an ossified political culture helped Koizumi's career. But being a loner can be a huge handicap when you're trying to tear down that culture?and have powerful, entrenched forces fighting you every step of the way. The LDP conservatives, led by the formidable Ryutaro Hashiimoto, want no part of Koizumi's reform agenda and are determined to preserve the business-politics relationships the Prime Minister has sworn to destroy. They are waiting to pounce: at the first sign of vulnerability, they will surely come after Koizumi as they did with previous reform-minded Premiers. "They...
...Junichiro Koizumi is a career politician and a third-generation LDP man, the grandson of a former head of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and a former minister of Health and Welfare under the man he beat out in this election, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Yet Koizumi ran for prime minister in 1995 without support from the party faithful. He has wavy hair, fiery rhetoric, an ex-wife - not common in Japanese politics - and what seems to be a genuine passion for just the kind of free-market, tough-medicine reforms that Japan desperately needs after ten years in the economic...
...heavyweight who hails from the same prefecture as Takeshita. But, having little clout and less charisma, Aoki is no Takeshita. He's competing for influence with Hiromu Nonaka?another Gang of Five member and Prime Minister-wannabe, who belongs to the largest party faction (led by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto...