Former US president George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Tuesday on his first visit to the country since he left office, officials said. Wearing a dark suit, a smiling Bush waved to the media and travellers in Narita airport, before heading into Tokyo for a two-day visit at the invitation of a private-sector organisation, reports and airport officials said. Later Tuesday, after changing into a baseball windbreaker, Bush threw a ceremonial first pitch for the Japan Series between the Yomiuri... Read Full Story
Former US president George W. Bush plans to visit Japan next week to meet former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, Kyodo News reported on Saturday. Bush is expected to make his first visit to Japan since he left office on Tuesday and Wednesday at the invitation of a private-sector organisation, Kyodo said, quoting Japanese and US sources. Bush is also expected to make a speech and watch a baseball game in Tokyo, the sources said. Koizumi, one of the nation's most popular premiers in modern... Read Full Story
Japan's former premier Junichiro Koizumi, known for crooning Elvis Presley songs while in office, is lending his voice to a superhero movie, reports said Tuesday. Lion-maned Koizumi, 67, has provided the voiceover for the extraterrestrial hero who fights not political opponents in the Diet legislature but monsters and aliens from outer space, according to the movie's producers. Koizumi, now retired from politics, used his offbeat charisma to rule Japan for more than five years until 2006, in... Read Full Story
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - One of Japan's most popular leaders, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, is going where few politicians have dared to go -- he's taking on the role of TV's masked superhero, Ultraman King. The 67-year-old Koizumi, a retired politician and a staunch Elvis Presley fan, recently lent his voice to the character of senior superhero Ultraman King, a respected leader of the Ultraman clan, for a new film. The red and silver-clad Ultraman is regarded as a cultural... Read Full Story
In Japan's election on Sunday, the two candidates for the prime minister's post are carrying on a family battle that started in the 1950s when their grandfathers were premiers. The clash of the political blue bloods -- incumbent Taro Aso and his rival Yukio Hatoyama -- casts a spotlight on Japan's rich and powerful clans that have dominated, and some say stifled, post-war politics. About one third of Japan's parliamentarians are hereditary politicians -- often derided as "botchan" or "babies... Read Full Story
In Japan's election next month, the two candidates for the prime minister's post are carrying on a family battle that started in the 1950s when their grandfathers were premiers. The clash of the political bluebloods -- incumbent Taro Aso and his rival Yukio Hatoyama -- casts a spotlight on Japan's rich and powerful clans that have dominated, and some say stifled, post-war politics. About one third of Japan's parliamentarians are hereditary politicians -- often derided as "botchan" or "babies... Read Full Story
Junichiro Koizumi will roar once again in a new movie “Dai Kaijuu Battle Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie” as a voice actor! His part is “Ultraman King” who is the captain of the Ultra family.
The first time he got this offer, he tried to refuse it. But his family encouraged him and he decided to do it. Go Fam!
The movie will come out on December 12th.
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August 15, 2008
Tokyo, Japan’s farm minister Seiichi Ota and former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited a controversial war shrine as the nation marked the anniversary of its World War II surrender.
While serving as top leader, Koizumi outraged Asian neighbours by praying at the Yasukuni shrine, which honours some 2.5 million Japanese war dead including 14 leading war criminals... Read Full Story
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