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Junichiro Koizumi

Personal data
Date of birth8 January 1942(age 74)
Place of birthYokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
SpouseKayoko Miyamoto (1978 � 1982)
ChildrenKōtarō Koizumi
Shinjirō Koizumi
Yoshinaga Miyamoto
Alma materKeio University
University College London
Prime Minister of Japan
In office26 April 2001 - 26 September 2006
MonarchAkihito
Succeeded byShinzō Abe
Preceded byYoshirō Mori
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office26 January 2002 - 16 February 2002
Succeeded byYoriko Kawaguchi
Preceded byMakiko Tanaka
Minister of Health and Welfare
In office7 November 1996 - 29 July 1998
Prime ministerRyutaro Hashimoto
Succeeded bySohei Miyashita
Preceded byNaoto Kan
In office27 December 1988 - 10 August 1989
Prime ministerNoboru Takeshita
Sōsuke Uno
Succeeded bySaburo Toida
Preceded byTakao Fujimoto
Minister of Post and Telecommunications
In office12 December 1992 - 20 July 1993
Prime ministerKiichi Miyazawa
Succeeded byKiichi Miyazawa
Preceded byHideo Watanabe
In office1996 - 2009
Majority197,037 (73.16%)
Succeeded byShinjirō Koizumi
Preceded byNew constituency

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|} is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.

Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), 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.

Koizumi also attracted international attention through his deployment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, the first foreign deployment of the Japanese military since World War II. His visits to Yasukuni Shrine led to diplomatic tensions with neighboring China and South Korea.

Since 1972, Koizumi is the only Prime Minister to have served more than five years in office. Until Naoto Kan, none of his successors were able to keep the office for more than one year.


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