Koizumi

/ ˌkɔɪˈzuːmɪ /

noun

1. Junichiro (ˌjunɪˈkiro). born 1941, Japanese politician; prime minister (2001–06)

Example Sentences

She had won a runoff leadership contest against the telegenic and more socially progressive Shinjiro Koizumi.

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Koizumi, 44, would have been Japan's youngest prime minister in the modern era and represented a generational change for the LDP.

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Ms. Takaichi, who would become Japan’s first female leader, defeated Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff in an intraparty campaign centered on whether the LDP can get its mojo back.

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Takaichi won Saturday with around 54% of the votes cast in a second-round runoff against Shinjiro Koizumi, a 44-year-old scion of a Japanese political dynasty and a political moderate.

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In Japan, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party had the option of choosing a suave political moderate in Shinjiro Koizumi to lead it into the next election.

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