Football: Asian Champions League

Football: Asian Champions League

Japan's Urawa Reds midfielder Yoshio Koizumi (front) plays a pass during the first half of a match against China's Wuhan Three Towns in the Asian Champions League football group stage on Nov. 29, 2023, at Saitama Stadium in Saitama, near Tokyo.

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

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

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, 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 Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005.

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

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

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, 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 Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2009, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives. Sato, a former chief economist at Credit Suisse First Boston who became one of Koizumi's ''assassin'' candidates fielded against LDP dissidents, was defeated in her constituency in Tokyo by the DPJ's Yoshio Tezuka, 42, who served two terms in the lower house before losing his seat in 2005. (Kyodo)