Pretty soon we won't have Junichiro Koizumi to kick around any more, at least not as prime minister, and for those of you who are already feeling nostalgic for the "Koizumi Theater," Nihon TV will present a two-hour dramatization of his administration Monday at 9 p.m.
"2,000 Days That Will Linger in History: Solving Five Mysteries" stars former race-car driver Koichi Iwaki as the lion-haired politician. The program centers on five "turning points" that took place during Koizumi's term and attempts to look behind the scenes, revealing things that the rest of the media didn't.
Among these turning points was Koizumi's exploitation of the popular Makiko Tanaka to win elections and then forcing her to resign as his foreign minister. Then there was his historic visit to North Korea, which set in motion the whole abduction controversy. And don't forget those "assassins" who in the last general election defeated Liberal Democratic Party members who didn't support Koizumi's reform plans.
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