monarch children constituency_mp birth_date alt term_end alma_mater term_start spouse image name caption native_name_lang predecessor parliament birth_place party office successor primeminister native_name majority article_title
akihito kōtarō koizumi shinjirō koizumi yoshinaga miyamoto kanagawa 11th district 8 january 1942 junichiro koizumi in 2010 september 29 , 1998 august 10 , 1989 july 20 , 26 1993 2009 , 2006 february 16 , 2002 july keio university university college london april 7 , 1996 december 27 , 1988 december 12 , 26 1992 1996 , 2001 january 26 , 2002 november kayoko miyamoto 1978 1982 koizumi 2010 cropped.png junichirō koizumi koizumi in march 2010 ja yoshirō watanabe new constituency mori makiko tanaka naoto kan takao fujimoto hideo japanese yokosuka , japan liberal democratic party prime of health and welfare minister of post and telecommunications minister of japan minister for foreign affairs minister shinzō miyazawa shinjirō koizumi abe yoriko kawaguchi sohei miyashita saburo toida kiichi ryutaro hashimoto noboru takeshita sōsuke uno kiichi miyazawa 小泉 純一郎 197,037 -lrb- 73.16 % -rrb- junichirō koizumi

junichirō koizumi

widely seen as a maverick leader of the liberal democratic party -lrb- ldp -rrb- , he became known as an economic reformer , focusing on japan 's government debt and the privatization of its postal service .
in 2005 , koizumi led the ldp to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern japanese history .
affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby nippon kaigi , which advocates among other things the return to militarism , the denial of japanese war crimes , and visits to yasukuni shrine .
koizumi also attracted international attention through his deployment of the japan self-defense forces to iraq , and through his visits to the controversial shrine that fueled diplomatic tensions with neighboring china and south korea .
although koizumi maintained a low profile for several years after leaving office , he returned to national attention in 2013 as an advocate for abandoning nuclear power in the wake of the fukushima nuclear disaster , which contrasted with the pro-nuclear views espoused by the ldp governments both during and after koizumi 's term in office .
