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Japan wins women's field hockey Group A match

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Nagisa Hayashi (far L), Yukari Yamamoto (back C), Masako Sato (far R) and other team members celebrate after winning against China in a women's field hockey tournament Group A match at the Riverbank Arena at the 2012 London Olympics on Aug. 6, 2012. Japan defeated China 1-0.

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'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.

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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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LDP to readmit 11 'postal rebels' but rejects Hiranuma

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato (C) and other members of the Liberal Democratic Party give a joint press conference after a meeting they held to voice their opposition to the return to the party of 11 independent lawmakers who were ousted in 2005 over a policy dispute on Japan's postal liberalization program.

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'Assassin' Sato now head of LDP chapter in Gifu Pref.

GIFU, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yukari Sato (far L) participates in a ceremony to open a branch office of the party in Gifu Prefecture on Dec. 4. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fielded Sato in the September general election as one of his ''assassin'' candidates to defeat LDP rebels. Also taking part were LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (C) and Kuniko Inoguchi (front, in dark suit), state minister charged with declining birthrate issues.

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LDP rookies make debuts in Diet debate on postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, who was elected in the Sept. 11 general election on an LDP ticket, makes her debut in Diet deliberations in a session of the lower house Special Committee on Postal Privatization on Oct. 7.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, an economist, arrives at the Diet on Sept. 21 to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election.

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LDP candidate Sato begins election campaigning

GIFU, Japan - Yukari Sato, an economist and now Liberal Democratic Party candidate, shakes hands with a supporter as she begins campaigning Aug. 30 for the Sept. 11 general election in a Gifu district.

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New parliamentarians step into lower house after election

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, an economist, arrives at the Diet on Sept. 21 to attend a special session after the Sept. 11 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo)

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LDP rookies make debuts in Diet debate on postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato, who was elected in the Sept. 11 general election on an LDP ticket, makes her debut in Diet deliberations in a session of the lower house Special Committee on Postal Privatization on Oct. 7. (Kyodo)

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'Assassin' Sato now head of LDP chapter in Gifu Pref.

GIFU, Japan - Ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yukari Sato (far L) participates in a ceremony to open a branch office of the party in Gifu Prefecture on Dec. 4. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fielded Sato in the September general election as one of his ''assassin'' candidates to defeat LDP rebels. Also taking part were LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (C) and Kuniko Inoguchi (front, in dark suit), state minister charged with declining birthrate issues. (Kyodo)

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LDP to readmit 11 'postal rebels' but rejects Hiranuma

TOKYO, Japan - Yukari Sato (C) and other members of the Liberal Democratic Party give a joint press conference after a meeting they held to voice their opposition to the return to the party of 11 independent lawmakers who were ousted in 2005 over a policy dispute on Japan's postal liberalization program. (Kyodo)

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'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)

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LDP candidate Sato begins election campaigning

GIFU, Japan - Yukari Sato, an economist and now Liberal Democratic Party candidate, shakes hands with a supporter as she begins campaigning Aug. 30 for the Sept. 11 general election in a Gifu district. (Kyodo)

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LDP's landslide victory in lower house election

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) makes a campaign speech in Gifu on Sept. 6, 2005, for Yukari Sato, a candidate running against Seiko Noda, who opposes Koizumi's proposed privatization of the postal system. Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party scored a landslide victory in the House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo