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Transcript: Profile: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
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- May 27, 2001
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Profile: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Host: DAVID MOLPUS
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
DAVID MOLPUS, host:
Japan's new prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, surprised the country
and the world when he won a landslide victory in party elections last
month. Koizumi has only been in office a few weeks now, but he's riding
a wave of popular support and has inspired renewed interest in the
normally staid world of Japanese politics. Still, as NPR's Eric Weiner
reports from Tokyo, many Japanese wonder whether Koizumi can fulfill
his campaign promise of reviving the Japanese economy.
ERIC WEINER reporting:
Junichiro Koizumi is clearly no ordinary ...