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...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...
...took a robot to breathe life into a state dinner. In Prague, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi charmed guests with assistant envoy ASIMO, a Honda humanoid. Asimo paid tribute to Czech writer Karel Capek, who coined the term robot in his 1921 play R.U.R. The mechanical sidekick also danced and made a toast--in Czech--but revealed that he was too young to drink...
...sang Elvis together." TOM CRUISE, Actor, on meeting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at his home. Cruise was in Japan to promote his new movie The Last Samurai
...Leaders and Misleaders Joe Klein was right: by falsely claiming that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa, President Bush misled his nation and its allies [July 28]. However, as a Japanese, what I deplore most is that many of my country's leaders, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, seem to be willing to send members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to Iraq, disregarding not only Japan's constitution but also questions about the legitimacy of the war. They insist that the reason for deploying the SDF is to help reconstruct the Iraqis' lives and maintain peace...