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Japanese student thanks for "Operation Tomodachi"

PASADENA, United States - Satsuki Koizumi (R), a high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, gives thanks to U.S. military members on Dec. 31, 2014, in Pasadena, California, for their participation in the "Operation Tomodachi" relief effort. The U.S. armed forces conducted the operation following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Miyagi and other prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 30, 2009, after she was defeated by independent Minoru Kiuchi in the House of Representatives election. Katayama, who was touted by Koizumi as a ''madonna of reform,'' was defeated by Kiuchi, an LDP rebel who voted against Koizumi's postal reform bills and was forced to give up the seat to Katayama at the last election.

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'Koizumi's children' face changing political climate

TOKYO, Japan - Taizo Sugimura (top right, clockwise), Kuniko Inoguchi, Koichi Yamauchi and Satsuki Katayama, and Yukari Sato (center) are among the so-called ''Koizumi's children'' who won seats in the House of Representatives in the 2005 general election on the coattails of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Koizumi tells new LDP elects not to represent specific interests

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, former Ministry of Finance bureaucrat who was elected in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, arrives at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 20 to attend a training program launched by the ruling party for newcomers.

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Koizumi asks MOF bureaucrat to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, a Ministry of Finance bureaucrat, leaves the Liberal Democratic Party Headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 13 after a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi, who doubles as LDP President, asked her to run in the Sept. 11 election on an LDP ticket, party officials said. Kyodo)

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Koizumi tells new LDP elects not to represent specific interests

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, former Ministry of Finance bureaucrat who was elected in the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election, arrives at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 20 to attend a training program launched by the ruling party for newcomers. (Kyodo)

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'Koizumi's Children' blown away by winds of change

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, one of the 83 Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers who were elected in 2005 for the first time on the back of the popularity of then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, bows to supporters at her campaign office in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 30, 2009, after she was defeated by independent Minoru Kiuchi in the House of Representatives election. Katayama, who was touted by Koizumi as a ''madonna of reform,'' was defeated by Kiuchi, an LDP rebel who voted against Koizumi's postal reform bills and was forced to give up the seat to Katayama at the last election. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi asks MOF bureaucrat to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Satsuki Katayama, a Ministry of Finance bureaucrat, leaves the Liberal Democratic Party Headquarters in Tokyo on Aug. 13 after a meeting with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi, who doubles as LDP President, asked her to run in the Sept. 11 election on an LDP ticket, party officials said. Kyodo)

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Japanese student thanks for "Operation Tomodachi"

PASADENA, United States - Satsuki Koizumi (R), a high school student from Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, gives thanks to U.S. military members on Dec. 31, 2014, in Pasadena, California, for their participation in the "Operation Tomodachi" relief effort. The U.S. armed forces conducted the operation following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Miyagi and other prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo)