Shinjirō Koizumi
| Shinjirō Koizumi | |
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| 小泉 進次郎 | |
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| Member of the Japanese Parliament for Kanagawa 11th district |
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Assumed office 31 August 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Junichirō Koizumi |
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| Born |
April 14, 1981 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
Kanto Gakuin University Columbia University |
Shinjirō Koizumi (小泉 進次郎 Koizumi Shinjirō?, born April 14, 1981) is a Japanese politician, a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the second son of 87th Japanese Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi and younger brother of actor Kotaro Koizumi. He enjoys popularity among both the Japanese public and younger LDP lawmakers, and is often viewed as a future candidate for Prime Minister of Japan.
Koizumi grew up in Yokosuka, his father's home district, attending Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama from elementary school through university with the Bachelor of Economics degree in 2014. When he was a student of junior high and senior high schools, he was engrossed in playing sports, especially baseball. He graduated with the M.A. degree in Political Science from Columbia University in 2006, where he was an understudy of Gerald Curtis. He spent one year as a part-time research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies before returning to Japan in 2007. After that, he worked as a private secretary of Junichirō, his father.
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