Book Club Hotel Network Travel Agency Job Times Executive Jobs Junichiro Koizumi's first Cabinet The first Koizumi Cabinet included five female ministers and three nonpoliticians -- both marking the largest number in the postwar era. Koizumi also retained seven of the 17 ministers who served in the last Cabinet of Yoshiro Mori. The key portofolios of the foreign and finance ministries went to ...

Born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 8, 1942 Member of the House of Representatives since 1972 (reelected in 10 consecutive elections) Constituency: Kanagawa 11 (Yokosuka and Miura Cities) ...

Chief LDP powerbroker Junichiro Koizumi on Mori, Japanese politics, and his own ambitions ...

For his wild hair and sensible ideas, for capturing the imagination of the Japanese voters and shaking up the LDP, Japan's new prime minister is TIME.com's Person of the Week ...