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Taro Aso
Taro Aso
Incumbent
Assumed office 
24 September 2008
Monarch Akihito
Preceded by Yasuo Fukuda
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1979
Constituency Fukuoka Prefecture 8th District (as of September 2005)
Majority 145,229 (55.4%) in 2005[1]
In office
31 October 2005 – 27 August 2007
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Shinzo Abe
Preceded by Nobutaka Machimura
Succeeded by Nobutaka Machimura
In office
22 September 2003 – 31 October 2005
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Preceded by Toranosuke Katayama
Succeeded by Heizo Takenaka
Minister in-charge of Economic and Financial Policies
In office
23 January 2001 – 26 April 2001
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori
Preceded by Fukushirō Nukaga
Succeeded by Heizo Takenaka
Director General of the Economic Planning Agency
In office
7 November 1996 – 11 September 1997
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
Preceded by Shūsei Tanaka
Succeeded by Koji Omi
Born 20 September 1940 (1940-09-20) (age 68)
Iizuka, Japan
Political party Liberal Democratic Party
Spouse Chikako Aso
Relations See: Family Tree
Religion Roman Catholic
Website http://www.aso-taro.jp/

Taro Aso (麻生太郎 Asō Tarō?, born September 20, 1940) is the current Prime Minister of Japan, having taken office on September 24, 2008. He is also President[2] of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and has served in the House of Representatives since 1979. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007, and was Secretary-General[2] of the LDP briefly in 2007 and in 2008.

On September 22, 2008, Aso was elected to succeed Yasuo Fukuda as President of the LDP. On September 24, the Diet elected Aso as Prime Minister.[3][4] He is also the first Roman Catholic prime minister of Japan.

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[edit] Early life

Aso, a Roman Catholic, was born in Iizuka, Fukuoka.[5] His father, Takakichi Aso, was the chairman of the Aso Cement Company and a close associate of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka; his mother was Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's daughter. Taro is also a great-great-grandson of Toshimichi Okubo, and his wife is the third daughter of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki. His younger sister, Nobuko, is the wife of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a first cousin of the Emperor Akihito.

Aso first graduated from the Faculty of Politics and Economics at Gakushuin University. He then studied in the United States at Stanford University, but was cut off by his family, who feared he was becoming too Americanized. After making his way back to Japan on a ship, he left once more to study at the London School of Economics.

Aso spent two years working for a diamond mining operation in Sierra Leone before civil war forced him to return to Japan.

Aso joined his father's company in 1966, and served as president of the Asō Mining Company from 1973 to 1979. He had distanced himself from the company's use of forced labor during World War II.[6], but since then has again been embroiled in controversy over the forced labor issue.[7] Working for the company, he lived in Brazil during the 1960s; Aso speaks Portuguese fluently.[8]

He was also a member of the Japanese shooting team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and President of the Japan Junior Chamber in 1978.

[edit] Political career

Aso was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in October 1979, and has since been re-elected eight times. In 1988, he became Parliamentary Vice Minister for Education.

He joined the Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi in 2003 as Minister of Internal Affairs, Posts and Communications. On October 31, 2005, he became Minister for Foreign Affairs. There has been some speculation that his position in the Cabinet was due to his membership in the Kono Group, an LDP caucus led by pro-Chinese lawmaker Yohei Kono: by appointing Aso as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Koizumi may have been attempting to "rein in" Kono's statements critical of Japanese foreign policy.[9]

Aso was one of the final candidates to replace Koizumi as prime minister in 2006, but lost the internal party election to Shinzo Abe by a wide margin. Both Abe and Asō are conservative on foreign policy issues and have taken confrontational stances towards some East Asian nations, particularly North Korea and, to a lesser extent, the People's Republic of China. Abe was considered a more "moderate" politician than the more "hard-line" Aso, and led Aso in opinion polling within Japan.[10]

On September 14, 2007, shortly after Abe announced his resignation, Aso announced his candidacy to replace Abe as Prime Minister. Aso was initially considered to be a leading candidate for the position[11] but was soon eclipsed by Yasuo Fukuda, a more "dovish" politician supported by Nobutaka Machimura, Fukushiro Nukaga, and reportedly by Koizumi as well.[12] Aso acknowledged that he would most likely lose to Fukuda, but said that he wanted to run so that there would be an open election, saying that otherwise LDP would face criticism for making its choice "through back-room deals".[13] In the President election, held on September 23, Fukuda defeated Aso, receiving 330 votes against 197 votes for Aso.[14][15]

On August 1, 2008, Fukuda appointed Aso as Secretary-General of LDP, a move that solidified Aso's position as the number two man in the party.[16]

Suddenly and unexpectedly on September 1, 2008, Fukuda announced his resignation as Prime Minister[17]. Five LDP members including Aso ran for new party President to succeed Fukuda. On September 21, one day before votes of Diet party members, Aso reportedly told a crowd of supporters outside Tokyo: "The greatest concern right now is the economy." "America is facing a financial crisis ... we must not allow that to bring us down as well."[18] Finally on September 22, Aso did win. Aso was elected as President of LDP with 351 of 525 votes (217 from 384 Diet party members, 134 from 47 prefecture branches); Kaoru Yosano, Yuriko Koike, Nobuteru Ishihara, Shigeru Ishiba got 66, 46, 37, 25 votes respectively[19][20][21].

Two days later on September 24, Aso was designated by the Diet as Prime Minister, and was formally appointed to the office by the Emperor on that night. In the House of Representatives (lower house), Aso garnered 337 out of 478 votes cast; in the House of Councillors (upper house), Ichiro Ozawa, President[22] of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was named through two times of ballots[3][4]. Because no agreement was reached at a joint committee of both Houses, the resolution of the House of Representatives became the resolution of the Diet, as is stipulated in the Constitution[4][23]. Aso reportedly said, "If you look at the current period, it's not a stable one." and "These are turbulent times with the financial situation and everything else."[24]

Later on the same day as his election as Prime Minister, Aso personally announced his new Cabinet (this is normally done by the Chief Cabinet Secretary). Aso's Cabinet was markedly different from the preceding Cabinet under Fukuda. Five of its members had never previously served in the Cabinet, and one of them, 34-year-old Yuko Obuchi, was the youngest member of the Cabinet in the post-war era.[25]

[edit] Fight against terrorism

On the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Prime Minister Aso publicly made a speech, stating: "This kind of terrorism is unforgivable, extremely despicable and vicious. I feel strong resentment and deeply condemn it. Japan is with the Indian people who are fighting against terrorism and we will cooperate with the Indian government."[26]

[edit] Controversial statements

During a meeting of the Kono Group in 2001, Aso drew criticism when he said that "those burakumin can't become prime minister," a statement directed at Hiromu Nonaka, a burakumin member of the Diet. Aso's office later attempted to clarify the statements by saying that they were misunderstood.[27]

In 2001, as economics minister, he was quoted as saying he wanted to make Japan a country where "rich Jews" would like to live.[28]

On October 15, 2005, he praised Japan for having "one culture, one civilization, one language, and one ethnic group," and stated that it was the only such country in the world.[29] Such statements seem to be in conflict with the fact Japan has various indigenous ethnic groups spread over its northern islands. At a lecture in Nagasaki Prefecture, Aso referred to a Japanese peace initiative on the Middle East, stating, "The Japanese were trusted because they had never been involved in exploitation there, or been involved in fights or fired machine guns. Japan is doing what the Americans can't do. It would probably be no good to have blue eyes and blond hair. Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces."[28]

Kyodo News reported that he had said on February 4, 2006, "our predecessors did a good thing" regarding compulsory education implemented during Japan's colonization of Taiwan.[30]

On December 21, 2005, he said China was "a neighbour with one billion people equipped with nuclear bombs and has expanded its military outlays by double digits for 17 years in a row, and it is unclear as to what this is being used for. It is beginning to be a considerable threat."[31] On January 28, 2006, he called for the emperor to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine. He later backtracked on the comment, but stated that he hoped such a visit would be possible in the future.[32]

Mainichi Daily News reported that on March 9, 2006 he referred to Taiwan as a "law-abiding country", which drew strong protest from Beijing, which considers the island a part of China.[33]

On September 23, 2008, Akahata, the daily newspaper published by Japanese Communist Party released a compiled list of these and other statements as the front page article criticizing Aso.[34] This compilation as well as similar lists of blunders have been frequently cited in the Japanese media.

Yahoo News reported that he had said on January 9, 2009, ""To work is good. It's completely different thinking from the Old Testament," [35]

[edit] Aso Mining forced labor controversy

The Aso mine near Fukuoka photographed in 1933.

In mid-2008 Aso conceded that his family's coal mine, Aso Mining Company, may have forced Allied prisoners of war to work in the mines in 1945 without pay. Western media had reported that 300 prisoners, including 197 Australians, 101 British, and two Dutch, worked in the mine. Two of the Australians, John Watson and Leslie Edgar George Wilkie, died while working in the Aso mine.[36] In addition, 10,000 Korean conscripts worked in the mine between 1939 and 1945 under severe, brutal conditions in which many of them died or were injured while receiving little pay. Apart from Aso's admission, the Aso company has never acknowledged using forced labor or commented on the issue. The company, now known as the Aso Group, is currently run by Aso's younger brother. Aso's wife serves on its board of directors.[37]

During the time that Aso served as minister of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ministry refused to confirm non-Japanese accounts of the use of forced labor by Japanese companies and challenged non-Japanese journalists to back-up their claims with evidence. In October 2008, Diet member Shoukichi Kina asked Aso whether any data about the use of Korean labor by Aso Mining had been provided to the South Korean government, which has requested such data. Aso replied that his administration will not disclose how individual corporations have responded to Korean inquiries.[38]

On November 13, 2008, during a discussion in the Upper House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense about the Tamogami essay controversy, Aso refused to confirm that forced labor had been used at his family's mine, stating that, "No facts have been confirmed." Aso added that, "I was 4, maybe 5 at the time. I was too young to recognize anything at that age." After Yukihisa Fujita responded that records at the United States National Archives and Records Administration indicated that forced labor had taken place at his family's mine, Aso repeated that "no factual details have been confirmed."[39]

Acting on a request from Fujita, the Foreign Ministry investigated and announced on December 18, 2008 that Aso Mining had, in fact, used 300 Allied POWs at its mine during World War II. The ministry confirmed that two Australians had died while working at the mine, but declined to release their names or causes of deaths for "privacy reasons." Said Fujita, "Prisoner policy is important in many ways for diplomacy, and it is a major problem that the issue has been neglected for so long."[40]

[edit] Reading mistakes

The Japanese media noted in November 2008 that Aso often mispronounced or incorrectly read kanji words written in his speeches, even though many of the words are commonly used in Japanese. Aso spoke of the speaking errors to reporters on November 12, 2008 saying, "Those were just reading errors, just mistakes."[41]

[edit] Personal life

[edit] Fondness for fine dining

In October 2008, the Japanese media reported that Aso dined-out or drank in restaurants and bars in luxury hotels almost nightly. When asked about it, Aso stated, "I won't change my style. Luckily I have my money and can afford it." Aso added that if he went anywhere else, he would have to be accompanied by security guards which would cause trouble.[42]

According to the Asahi Shimbun Aso dined-out or drank at bars 32 times in September 2008, mainly at exclusive hotels. Aso's predecessor, Yasuo Fukuda, dined-out only seven times in his first month in office. Both of the LDP's opposition parties have called Aso's frequent outings inappropriate. Aso's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Jun Matsumoto, commented on the issue by saying that Aso's frequent trips to restaurants, "is his lifestyle and philosophy, and I am not in a position to express my opinion. If only there were more appropriate places when considering security issues and not causing trouble for other customers."[43]

[edit] Manga fan

Aso is a fan of manga since childhood. He had his family send manga magazines from Japan while he was studying at Stanford University.[44] In 2003, he described reading about 10 or 20 manga magazines every week (manga make up only part of Aso's voracious reading) and talked about his impression of various manga extemporaneously.[44] In 2007, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, he established the International Manga Award for non-Japanese manga artists.[45][46][47]

Aso has allegedly been witnessed reading the manga "Rozen Maiden" in Tokyo International Airport. He admitted in an interview that he had read the manga (but he said he did not remember whether he had read it in the airport), and described his impressions of the manga.[48][49]

Thus, his candidacy for the position of Japanese Prime Minister following the announced resignation of incumbent Shinzo Abe actually caused shares among some manga publishers and companies related to the manga industry to rise significantly.[50]

[edit] Religion

As a Roman Catholic, Aso belongs to the small minority of Japanese Christians. His baptismal name is "Francisco".

While Christians only account for around 1% of the Japanese, Aso is already the second catholic post-war prime minister of Japan after Masayoshi Ohira (1979-1980).[51] Also, three of the five candidates for the leadership of the LDP, which would ultimately determine the new prime minister, were of Christian faith: Aso, Shigeru Ishiba and Kaoru Yosano.[citation needed]

On occasion of his 2009 new year visit to the Shintoist Ise Shrine, Aso has publicly performed the hand-clapping in front of the shrine, stating later that he had "prayed for the good of the Japanese people". [52]. While visits to shrines are a common tradition also among agnostic Japanese on New Year, Aso's prayer at a Shintoist shrine can be seen as an act of public worshipping of a different cult, and might as such be considered as blasphemy by Catholics.[citation needed]

[edit] Family Tree

Ōkubo Toshimichi
 
 Mishima Michitsune
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Makino Nobuaki
 
 Mineko
 
 
 
 Takichi Aso
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Yukiko
 
 Shigeru Yoshida
 
 Taro Aso
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Kenichi Yoshida
 
 Kazuko
 
 
 
 Takakichi Aso
 
 Zenko Suzuki
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Prince of Mikasa
 
 Princess of Mikasa
 
 Taro Aso
 
 Chikako
 
 Shunichi Suzuki
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Princess Akiko
 
 Princess Yōko

[edit] References

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