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Sep 22, 2021 · Junichiro Koizumi was the first prime minister to fully utilise these institutional reforms in the early 2000s, promoting policy changes such as the privatisation of postal services. Prime minister Shinzo Abe made use of a more centralised LDP and government.
Sep 24, 2014 · The politics of historical memory is a key factor shaping the international relations of East Asia today. Controversy surrounding the Yasukuni Shrine and the ‘comfort women’ (sex slaves) issue has had far-reaching foreign policy implications for Japan’s relations with its East Asian neighbours. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s Japan ...
Shinjiro Koizumi is the son of the popular and reform-minded former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, who served in 2001–06. While Shinjiro Koizumi has yet to take a cabinet position, he has been elected as a member of parliament four times in his father’s former seat and has served in junior ministerial positions.
Dec 23, 2022 · This began in the 1950s, when the Japan Self-Defense Forces were established and continued with periods of acceleration under former prime ministers Yasuhiro Nakasone, Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzo Abe. Koizumi explicitly spoke of becoming a ‘normal’ country — implying that not being a great power was a condition of abnormality to be ...
Oct 25, 2021 · How is this possible when, almost 20 years ago, Tokyo incorporated inward FDI into its growth strategy? In 2001, FDI was a miniscule 1.2 per cent of GDP, compared to 28 per cent in a typical rich country. Then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi set a goal of 5 per cent by 2011 and changed Japan’s Commercial Code to remove some impediments.
There are close to a dozen candidates in the LDP race for the Japanese prime ministership. Two frontrunners — reformer Shinjiro Koizumi, son of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, a fiscal conservative and former bureaucrat — represent generational change.
Nov 24, 2019 · Shigeru Yoshida, who served seven years over two stints to set the path for Japan’s post-war foreign policy; Eisaku Sato, Abe’s great-uncle who served seven and a half years presiding over the ‘income doubling’ era of Japanese economic growth of the 1960s; and, more recently, the five-year term of Junichiro Koizumi, who resurrected the LDP from its disastrously waning popularity in the 1990s.
Jul 18, 2023 · Japan’s first policy change was the decentralisation reforms initiated in the 2000s under former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi. These reforms allowed local governments to decide the number, salary and treatment of teachers as long as they were within the total teacher salary budget.
Dec 20, 2023 · A. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are facing one of the worst financial scandals in decades, resulting in growing public distrust of the party and threatening the stability of his government. The Kishida government, which took office in October 2021, was already facing headwinds as its cabinet’s ...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI 7 months ago Japan’s University Fund is ill-equipped to stem decline in research ...
