... M asaru Tamamoto Junichiro Koizumi, in office only since great gamble in backing Koizumi. Still, it is April, is by far Japan’s most popular prime far from clear how a people so used to egali­ minister in more than one hundred years of tarian harmony will go in enduring what...

... minister, Junichiro liamentary district from his father, as have Koizumi. In early August, rebels in his Lib­ many other LDP politicians. Notwithstand­ eral Democratic Party (ldp) in the upper ing his conventional background, he tended house of the Diet killed his bill to privatize to be a maverick...

... Itself Masaru Tamamoto Si no-Japanese diplomatic relations are at Japanese and Chinese nationalism. But in their worst since the 1970s. The cabinet the country itself, there is scant awareness that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as­ that Japan is perceived as being nationalis­ sembled...

... dispute with Moscow over the southern Koizumi’s prescription for Japan’s Kurile Islands. Russian president Boris malaise involved a heavy dose of Nakasone- Yeltsin was interested, but the initiative style normalcy—heightened patriotism, a foundered in 1998 on the intransigence of closer American...

... and South Korea, to upgrading Indonesia, Malaysia, or Pakistan. Instead of Japan’s status.29 Reacting sharply to Prime openly opposing India’s bid (as it does in Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s push for coun­ the case of Japan), Beijing relies on “spoiler cil membership in his September 2004 states...

... initia­ Mending its fences with the United tive prompted a frantic diplomatic blitz of States after a protracted period of tension Southeast Asia by Japanese prime minister stemming from the Taiwan Strait crisis, Junichiro Koizumi in January 2002, during the American bombing of the Chinese em­...

... WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • WINTER 2002/03 partner in Sakhalin I, with a 30 percent centrated in three major urban areas: Tokyo, stake. Therefore, if Prime Minister Junichiro Osaka, and Nagoya. Pipeline gas would Koizumi’s September 16, 2002, summit have to be distributed through...