"When I assumed the office of the Prime Minister of Japan last year, many people thought that it would be difficult to implement the various reforms that I proposed. In fact, however, we have advanced reform in many sectors. The time has come to bid farewell to the systems and practices with which we have become familiar and to flexibly accept the needs and requirements of this new age we live in."
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"Policy Speech by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the 154th Session of the Diet" (24 February 2002)
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Junichiro Koizumi
Junichiro Koizumi (Japanese: 小泉 純一郎, Koizumi Jun'ichirō) (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.
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