Koizumi to run in LDP presidential race

Koizumi to run in LDP presidential race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Health and Welfare Minister Junichiro Koizumi is mobbed by reporters at a Tokyo hotel on April 9 after the Liberal Democratic Party's second largest faction, headed by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, decided to field Koizumi in the party's presidential election to choose a successor to Mori.

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