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I'm sad that Koizumi didn't voice himself, supposedly he actually is a fan of anime or something, at least that's what he once said in a speech.
It says something about Koizumi's rock star status in Japan that before the decade was out after he stepped down as Prime Minister that his party (LDP), which had ruled virtually uninterrupted since the formation of the post-war nation, was handed a decisive defeat by the opposition DPJ for the first time in it's history. Koizumi is a lot like Bill Clinton in the sense that after he and Clinton's terms as party leaders (and national leaders) ended, their parties were left adrift and directionless and soon after sent to crushing defeat because they became the embodiment of their respective parties.
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