Koizumi picks ally Yamasaki as LDP's secretary general

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Koizumi (3rd from L), newly elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is surrounded by new party top executives at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on April 25. Koizumi appointed Taro Aso (R), state minister for economic and fiscal policy, as head of the party's Policy Research Council, and Koizumi's ally Taku Yamasaki (2nd from R) as the party's secretary general, the No. 2 post. Mitsuo Horiuchi (3rd from R) became the chairman of the decision-making General Council.

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