Abe had succeeded as Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro, whose five and half years as PM had produced real reforms and moved Japan forward.
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He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
The great reform promises of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi have turned into meaningless ritual.
Accordingly, it rejected the free-market version of change championed by Junichiro Koizumi, a reforming LDP prime minister.
Japanese policymaking went back to sleep after the departure of Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister in 2006.
In early August 2005 the then-prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, called a snap election to push through postal privatisation.
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Three months ago investors had high hopes of Junichiro Koizumi, the incoming prime minister, who promised structural reform.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told parliament on Wednesday that the abduction issue would be a top priority.
Tony Blair has paid a visit, as have the Russian president Vladimir Putin and Japan's Junichiro Koizumi, among others.
In 2001 a former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, was welcomed precisely because he sought to reform the political system.
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The reign of Mr Abe's starry predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, helped disguise this failure.
Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, will be in America this month and is likely to discuss the issue with George Bush.
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In the latest general election, in 2005, the then prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, challenged the system by appealing directly to voters.
With Mr Kato in the political wilderness, the best reformist hope is Junichiro Koizumi, a former minister of health and welfare.
The prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has pointed out that China represents a potentially huge export market for high-priced Japanese farm goods.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi also came, despite the absence of a treaty ending World War II hostilities between Moscow and Tokyo.
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"I don't think he ought to slow down, " Bush told reporters during a Camp David summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo have all been welcomed in recent weeks.
Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, said that his country, the only one to have suffered a nuclear attack, wanted talks to continue.
It was privatized last year by outgoing Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
In 2005, then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized for his country's role in World War II on the 60th anniversary of the war's end.
Japan's popular new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, now offers hope that Japan will push ahead with the reforms needed to boost long-term growth.
Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, is already in danger of breaking earlier pledges to voters, like cleaning up the banks and the government's finances.
Hopes that the tenure of prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, would mark a turning-point for Japan in its commitment to change have begun to fade.
Since Junichiro Koizumi's election as prime minister in 2001, the world's second-biggest economy has quietly managed to begin pulling itself back to life.
To general surprise, Junichiro Koizumi, billed as a reformer and a maverick, became prime minister of Japan after his hapless predecessor, Yoshiro Mori, resigned.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had rejected any possibility that Tokyo would withdraw its 550-troop contingent from Iraq where they have been conducting humanitarian missions.
It has lost Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, precious popularity points.
In mid-July, a leadership race among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will begin, for the succession to the prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, who retires in September.
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