In politics there are so many issues, sometimes boring. On tackling such a big-scale issue like climate change, it's got to be fun, it's got to be cool. It's got to be sexy too, we are committed to realizing a decarbonised society, and we are ready to contribute as a more powerful country in the fight against climate change.

Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi (?? ???, Koizumi Jun'ichir?, born 8 January, 1942) is a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009, and he remains the sixth-longest serving Prime Minister in Japanese history.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the LDP upon his election to the position in 2001, he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on reducing Japan's government debt and the privatisation of its postal service.

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