Sentence examples for a koizumi from inspiring English sources

Now chief cabinet secretary, he is a Koizumi protégé.

And L.D.P. has enjoyed its supporting rate with a Koizumi premium.

This evening, as dusk settled over the prime minister's downtown residence, Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a ruling party legislator and a Koizumi ally, looked down from his sixth floor office window in the Japanese Diet, the parliamentary body that shapes, and some would say hobbles, executive action here.

He suggested that both sides had learned from the dispute in 2005, pointing to Beijing's determination to avoid large protests this weekend and suggesting it was aware it did not face "a Koizumi type, using nationalism for domestic purposes" in Tokyo.

After a Koizumi-inspired landslide in the 2005 lower-house elections, the LDP can carry on governing.

But some members will argue that this back-room dealing is just what voters loathe about the LDP and will favour a Koizumi-style reformist.More likely, perhaps, the party might conclude that Mr Aso's neoconservative views, which resemble Mr Abe's, are not what it needs right now.

Still, Mr Fukuda has pulled off a Koizumi-like feat: with Mr Ozawa's help, he has positioned himself as a crusader against his own party's forces of reaction.Mr Fukuda has promised the public some very bold things, to be dealt with in a special session of the Diet running from late August until perhaps early next year.

In a way, Koizumi has become his legacy.

"But the party is also afraid of a second Koizumi".

One strategy that might help, says Eisuke Sakakibara a prominent former official and now a leading Koizumi detractor is to exploit schisms in the LDP when backing candidates, even those who become independents rather than join the DPJ fold.

In this context, far from being a reformer, Mr Koizumi represents a small but disturbing retreat into Japan's past.