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Jun' ichirō Koizumi (); born the January 8th 1942) is a Politician Japan board. It was the Prime Minister Japan of 2001 with 2006.

As of its nomination with the head of the democratic Liberal party (PLD) majority in 2001, it is dissociated as an economic reformer, concentrating on the debt of the government of Japan and the privatization of its postal service. In 2005, Koizumi leads the PLD to one of broadest the parliamentary majorities in the modern history of Japan. It was on the other hand criticized to have severely put at evil the diplomatic relations of Japan with the Asian countries close such as the China and the South Korea with its visits discussed with the Sanctuaire to Yasukuni. Its mandate ended on September 26th, 2006.

Beginnings

It was born the January 8th 1942 with Yokosuka (横須賀), a city located in the Préfecture of Kanagawa (神奈川県). It is called Henjin (変人, henjin , “strange man”).

In March 1960, it finishes its studies with the college of Yokosuka. Then it enters in April 1962 to the Université Keiō (慶應義塾大学) to study the economy. It leaves there graduate in 1967. It then leaves to study at the university of London - (University College London). In 1969 with died of his/her father, it returns to Japan.

It Marie in 1978 and it has three children. He divorces in 1982 and promises never remarier. The relations with its ex-wife and its third child are quasi non-existent.

Koizumi is a politician of third generation. His/her father, Jun' ya Koizumi, was managing director of the agency of defense of Japan and a member of the government. His/her grandfather, Matajirō Koizumi, were Minister for the posts and telecommunications in the governments of the Prime Ministers Hamaguchi and Wakatsuki and one of the first defenders of postal privatization.

The rise

In December 1972, it is elected with a seat of member of Parliament to the Room of the advisers. In 1979, it is named vice-minister of Finances (government Ōhira). In 1988 he is Minister for the Public health (government Takeshita), then Minister for the Stations and Télécommunications (government Miyazawa) in 1992 and finally Minister for the Public health (second government Hashimoto) in 1996.

Prime Minister

The April 24th 2001 he becomes president of the PLD, becoming thus the April 26th 2001, Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Yoshirō Mori (森喜朗).

Since the August 13rd 2001, it each year will pay homage to the Sanctuaire of Yasukuni, in which the memories are honoured with the soldiers fallen at the time of the various conflicts in which the Japanese took part since 1868, among which fourteen war criminals of class condemned at the time of the lawsuit of Tōkyō. It is a recurring cause of tensions with the South Korea and the China.

In 2004, for the first time, it sent the Forces of self-defense ( jieitai , 自衛隊, Japanese Armée) on a theater of military actions (the FAD do not have constitutionally the right to take part in a war), after having widened their field of competence with displacements abroad in 2001 for actions of nature not-soldiers.

During the year 2004, the action of Koizumi in the field of the international diplomacy was mainly devoted to the problem North-Korean, primarily while seeking with more on the current location of many Japanese removed by the secret services North-Korean at the end of the Années 1970 and at the beginning of the Années 1980 (see the article detailed on the Relations nippo - North-Korean during the mandate of Junichiro Koizumi).

Summer 2005: following the rejection of its proposal for a privatization of the post office by the Upper House, it dissolves the Lower House (the Constitution giving him any capacity on the first), in order to cause anticipated legislative elections which it gains the September 11th 2005. It can thus start again the reform in strong position at the Parliament. This reform headlight of its government prepares dismantling in four entities of this monstrous establishment in the center of several corruption scandals. Japan Post is amongst other things a pension fund among most important in the world, with the head of approximately 2.600 billion euros of saving. This colossal financial weight is put at the service of the Japanese state while enabling him, in particular, to finance the expenditure of road infrastructures. But the turbid bonds between the Democratic Liberal party, the leaders of Japan Post and the public works contractors lead to embezzlements. The useless highways leave ground, the public money is engulfed in the black cases of the parties and the deficit of the state grows hollow. The dismantling of the post office should start in 2007 and finish in 2017. It in the long term raises nevertheless the question of the refinancing of the Japanese state, a privatized post office which can prefer to invest elsewhere than in the obligations of a state in quasi-bankruptcy.

In 2006, it carries out finally its electoral promise visit the Sanctuaire of Yasukuni on August 15th, day-birthday of the rendering of Japan, which causes, like each preceding visit, an outcry near the close Asian countries.

Shinzō Abe succeeds the September 26th to him 2006.

See too

Prime Ministers of Political Japan
of democratic Japan
Liberal party (Japan)
Cool Biz
Philippe Pons, “the reform of the Post office touches in the middle of the Japanese model”, in " Le Monde " , September 8th, 2005,
Alexis Boher and Samuel Cockedey, “the rejection of the reform of Japan Post does not involve immediate concern on the Japanese financial markets, in " Embassy of France in Japan - mission économique" , August 12th, 2005,

External bond

the site of the Prime Minister of Japan

Simple: Junichiro Koizumi Zh-classical: 小泉純一郎 Zh-min-nan: Koizumi Zyun'itirô

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