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Transcript: Profile: Popularity of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
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- July 28, 2001
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Profile: Popularity of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Host: JACKI LYDEN
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
JACKI LYDEN, host:
In Japan, politics have long been dominated by one party, the Liberal
Democratic Party, or LDP, since 1955. But tomorrow's national election
is shaping up to be something different. It's the first real test
for Japan's new, hugely popular prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi.
NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Tottori, Japan.
ERIC WEINER reporting:
This part of Japan is known as `the concrete kingdom'...
(Soundbite of bird chirping; water flowing)
WEINER: ...a strange name, considering that Tottori, the smallest
of Japan's ...