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Junichiro Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan, 2001 to 2006

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A flamboyant reformer who privatized Japan Post, sent troops to Iraq on a non-combat mission and won a landslide in 2005.

Junichiro Koizumi sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, leaning tech-optimist on technology and leaning interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Junichiro Koizumi sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Junichiro Koizumi

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.98%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…97%Liberal conservatismCombines free markets and limited government with respect for institutions, tradition…94%Realism in foreign policySees international politics as a contest of power and interests in which states act to…91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: 内閣官房内閣広報室, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.