Koizumi

Mr Koizumi was elected the new president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Mr Koizumi succeeded Mr Mori as prime minister.

Prime Minister Koizumi said, "There are people who say that, because it's unconstitutional, I should not pray at the Yasukuni Shrine".

While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.

Mr Koizumi is now sure of election.

Mr Koizumi is really full of himself.

Mr. Koizumi talks endlessly without stopping.

Prime Minister Koizumi is certainly not a cold-blooded man.

Mr Koizumi thinks an awful lot of himself.

Mr. Koizumi, dressed in a pink shirt and white slacks atop his party's truck, tells Tokyo voters postal reform is the prerequisite for all other reform.

China's real issue with Japan, disguised by historical complaints, lies in the fact that Japan under Koizumi has become a stauncher ally of the United States.