Junichiro Koizumi tops list of most suitable PMs

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    Junichiro Koizumi may have announced his retirement from politics, but voters are still hoping he will come back:

    Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi tops a list of lawmakers seen as most qualified to be prime minister, followed by Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, according to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey.

    In the survey, 14.4 percent of respondents said Koizumi was most suited to be prime minister, followed by Ozawa at 13.7 percent and Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe at 7.5 percent.

    Meanwhile, the rate of those who said Prime Minister Taro Aso was the most suitable was 4.7 percent, slightly higher than the ratio of 4.6 percent for Yoshimi Watanabe, a former state minister for administrative reform who recently bolted from the Liberal Democratic Party, according to the survey.

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