Tarō Asō (麻生 太郎, Asō Tarō, born 20 September 1940) is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal...

held on 22 September 2008, Tarō Asō won with 351 of the 527 votes; Ishiba placed fifth and last with 25 votes. In Aso's Cabinet, appointed on 24 September...

Prime Minister of Japan Tarō Asō announced that he would resign after losing badly in the general election held on 30 August 2009. Asō announced on 8 September...

Shikōkai (Japanese: 志公会) is a faction led by Tarō Asō within the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Before the dissolution of other factions, it was the third-largest...

Tarō Asō, publicly acknowledged the likelihood of his own defeat a week before the election. In the election, on 23 September, Fukuda defeated Aso, receiving...

Noda (2017–2018) Tarō Kōno, current Foreign Minister. Son of Yōhei Kōno, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Tarō Asō, current Finance Minister...

House of Representatives, 2012–present) Endorsements of Taro Kono Former Prime Ministers Tarō Asō, (Prime Minister, 2008–2009; Deputy Prime Minister, 2012–2021;...

Minister Tarō Asō, and Heisei Kenkyūkai, led by LDP General Secretary Toshimitsu Motegi, defied Kishida's will and did not disband. Both Aso and Motegi...

have asked Aso and the company to apologise, but both have declined to do so. In mid-2008 Tarō Asō conceded that his family's coal mine, Aso Mining Company...

The Asō Cabinet governed Japan from 24 September 2008 to 16 September 2009 by Prime Minister Tarō Asō after his predecessor Yasuo Fukuda resigned. The...

Shinzō Abe and Tarō Asō. Tanigaki was viewed as the "moderate" candidate in the race, mainly due to his foreign policy views: unlike Abe and Asō, he stated...

Tarō (太郎, タロウ, たろう) (alternatively romanized Taro, Tarô, Talo, Taroh or Tarou), is a stand-alone masculine Japanese given name or a common name second...

Taro Kono (河野 太郎, Kōno Tarō, born 10 January 1963) is a Japanese politician serving as the Minister for Digital Transformation since August 2022. A member...

ministers, including current prime minister and LDP president Shigeru Ishiba, Tarō Asō, Shinzō Abe, Yoshihide Suga, and Fumio Kishida.[verification needed] The...

Party. His chief competitors for the position were Sadakazu Tanigaki and Tarō Asō. Yasuo Fukuda was a leading early contender but ultimately chose not to...

in charge of Alleviating the Burden of the Bases in Okinawa. Suga and Tarō Asō were the only members of the December 2012 cabinet who remained in the...

by North Korean agents during the 1970s and 1980s. He was replaced by Tarō Asō in the cabinet reshuffle that followed the 11 September 2005 election....

25 September 2007 following a leadership election on 23 September 2007. Taro Aso, who had lost to Shinzo Abe in the 2006 leadership election and then again...

(2012–2021) Tarō Asō Former Defense Minister (2016–2017) Tomomi Inada Environment Minister (2019–2021) Shinjirō Koizumi Defense Minister (2019–2020) Tarō Kōno...

suffering from poor health. Fukuda defeated Asō in the election, receiving 330 votes against 197 votes for Asō. Since the LDP had an absolute majority in...

duties of the prime minister until the National Diet elects a successor. Tarō Asō was the longest-serving deputy prime minister. This position has been vacant...

belong to political dynasties: former Prime Ministers Zenkō Suzuki and Tarō Asō are respectively his father and his brother-in-law; his wife Chikako is...

defeated Tarō Asō for the post, receiving 330 votes against 197 votes for Aso. However Fukuda resigned suddenly in September 2008, and Asō became Prime...

He was formally named to the post on September 16, 2009. Prime Minister Tarō Asō conceded late on the night of August 30, 2009, that the LDP had lost control...

of Yoshida's grandchildren are Tarō Asō, who served as the 92nd prime minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009, and Nobuko Asō, who later married Prince Tomohito...

major Japanese political party, however she came in third place losing to Tarō Asō. In 2017, Koike left the LDP amid much media attention and launched two...

parts of Fukuoka including the city of Iizuka, home to the Asō family (Asō Corp./KK) and Tarō Asō, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) faction leader and the only...

Minister Keizō Obuchi in early October 1999. In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tarō Asō, appointed on 24 September 2008, Nakasone was appointed as Minister of...

Mikasa (Nobuko). She is also the niece of Japan's 92nd prime minister Tarō Asō (who is the older brother of her mother), great-niece of author and literary...

– 330 Tarō Asō – 197 LDP himself 2007–2008 23 Tarō Asō 麻生 太郎 (born 1940) Rep for Fukuoka 8th 22 September 2008 28 September 2009 2008 Tarō Asō – 351 Kaoru...