Shinjirō Koizumi
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Shinjirō Koizumi (小泉 進次郎, Koizumi Shinjirō, born 14 April 1981) is a Japanese politician who served as the Minister of the Environment from September 2019 to October 2021. He also serves as a member the Member of the House of Representatives for the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the second son of former Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi and the younger brother of actor Kotaro Koizumi.
Shinjirō Koizumi | |
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小泉 進次郎 | |
Minister of the Environment | |
In office 11 September 2019 – 4 October 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Shinzō Abe Yoshihide Suga |
Preceded by | Yoshiaki Harada |
Succeeded by | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi |
Member of the House of Representatives for Kanagawa 11th District | |
Assumed office 31 August 2009 | |
Preceded by | Junichiro Koizumi |
Personal details | |
Born | (1981-04-14) 14 April 1981 (age 43) Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Junichiro Koizumi Kayoko Miyamoto |
Alma mater | Kanto Gakuin University (BEc) Columbia University (MA) |
After graduating from university, Koizumi worked as a researcher at the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, and became active politically as Young Leader of the Pacific Forum CSIS. He also spent time working as a political secretary for his father in the final years of his second term as prime minister. In the 2009 election, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat his father had occupied for more than 35 years.
After the election of the Abe Government in 2012, Koizumi was appointed as a Vice-Minister for Reconstruction, focusing on the northeastern region of Japan that was devastated by the March 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster. He publicly opposed his father's calls for Japan to abandon nuclear energy immediately. In 2019, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appointed Koizumi to the Cabinet as Minister of the Environment, a role he retained when Yoshihide Suga succeeded Abe as prime minister in September 2020. In January 2020, Koizumi received international news attention when he announced his plans to take two weeks of paternity leave when his first child was born.[1][2]