No one at the environment ministry disagrees that the economy is important. We just would like to behave in a way that ensures the environment will never be left behind.

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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