PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Kuniko Inoguchi, Satsuki Katayama & Yukari Sato;
LDP Members of the House of Representatives

The speech and Q & A will be in English.

"Koizumi's Children And The Upcoming Election"

When former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called a surprise Lower House election in 2005, a group of conservative, somewhat hawkish younger candidates with international experience who supported his policies were elected. First dubbed "assassins" during the campaign and then "Koizumi's Children" after they won, these people were swept into power promising a variety of reforms. Now, four years later and just weeks from the next election, Koizumi is retired, his reforms and political philosophy are out of favor with the electorate and his children find themselves increasingly abandoned.

Please join us as three of the most prominent "Koizumi's Children" offer their thoughts on the upcoming election. Yukari Sato is a former economist at Credit Suisse First Boston with a Ph.D. from New York University. Kuniko Inoguchi has served in a number of posts, including Defense Policy Review Council, the Administrative Reform Council and the Gender Equity Council. Satsuki Katayama was a former Finance Ministry official who spent a year in France at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

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Sandwich Plate: Smoked salmon, with rucola, red onion & dill cream cheese on rye.
Hot Plate: Beef & eggplant curry with seasonal salad.

Satsuki Katayama, Kuniko Inoguchi & Yukari Sato