Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s former Prime Minister, secured a landslide victory in the Lower House elections on September 11, 2005. This victory proved his leadership was not in a wrong way.
Since he became the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he had persisted in privatization of Japan’s postal services because he deemed national postal services full of inefficiency. However, he was always with difficulties. A significant number of legislators were against the privatization, asserting the right of people who live in rural areas. Even some influential legislators in the LDP were against Koizumi, too. In these difficulties, however, he never listened to others’ opinions. He kept insisting on the necessity of the privatization. At this point, he was considered too rigid.
When his plans to privatize the postal services were rejected in the House of Councilors, he did not hesitate to dissolve the Lower House (the House of Councilors cannot be dissolved). He professed that he would resign the Prime Minister if he could not win in the following elections. By dissolving the Lower House, he wanted to ask the public if they want the privatization or not, i.e., if Japanese people support him or not. The consequence of the elections was… shown above.
It is true that he was extremely rigid, but he was so because he was confident of his privatization plans. He knew what was necessary to improve Japan. He knew he himself must implement it even though he would face difficulties. Rigid leadership can be classified as bad leadership, but I believe his rigidness was proof of his great leadership.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4232988.stm
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