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Tuesday, 07 September, 2010
15:44 GMT 19:44 Moscow Local Time: 19:44 G8/2006 RUSSIA |
JAPAN
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JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI
Prime Minister of Japan
Assumption of the office: 2003
Date of birth: January 8, 1942
Place of birth: Kanagawa Prefecture Family status: Divorced / two sons |
| Occupation: | He graduated from the economics faculty of the prestigious private Keio University in Tokyo. After graduation he took an economics course in London. |
| Career: | At the age of 30, in 1972, he was elected to the Diet's House of Representatives (Shugi-in) and has been re-elected nine times since then.
He occupied the following positions in the Government: Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. He held a number of important positions in the Liberal-Democratic Party, being a member of its Leading Council, Deputy Chairman of its Policy Board, and its Deputy Secretary-General. In 2001, the Diet elected him as Prime Minister. In 2003, he gained a convincing victory at the elections of the Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party. At the early elections to the Diet's House of Representatives he was re-elected Prime Minister by a vast majority of votes.
Mr. Koizumi is divorced and has two sons. |