The native form of this personal name is Koizumi Jun'ichirō. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Junichiro Koizumi
小泉 純一郎
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
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
Noboru Takeshita
Sōsuke Uno
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
Member of the House of Representatives from Kanagawa
In office 10 December 1972 – 20 October 1996
Preceded by
Seiichi Tagawa
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Constituency
2th district (Multi-member)
In office 20 October 1996 – 21 July 2009
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Shinjirō Koizumi
Constituency
11th district
Personal details
Born
(1942-01-08) 8 January 1942 (age 82) Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Political party
Liberal Democratic
Spouse
Kayoko Miyamoto
(m. 1978; div. 1982)
Children
Kōtarō Koizumi
Shinjirō Koizumi
Yoshinaga Miyamoto
Alma mater
Keio University (BEc)
University College London
Junichiro Koizumi (/kɔɪˈzuːmi/;[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 was 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, he 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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^Nishiyama, George (2 October 2013). "Fukushima Watch: Popular Ex-PM Koizumi Comes Out Against Nukes". Wall Street Journal Japan Real Time. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
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