Jun'ya Koizumi

Junya Koizumi (小泉 純也, Koizumi Jun'ya) (January 24, 1904 – August 10, 1969) was a Japanese politician who served as Director General of the Japan Defense Agency during the 1960s.

Jun'ya Koizumi
小泉 純也
Member of the Imperial Diet of Japan (House of Representatives)
In office
1937–1947
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1952  1969?
Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency
In office
18 July 1964  3 June 1965
Prime MinisterHayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō
Preceded byFukuda Tokuyasu
Succeeded byRaizo Matsuno
Personal details
Born(1904-01-24)January 24, 1904
Higashi-Kaseda, Kagoshima Prefecture, Empire of Japan
Died10 August 1969(1969-08-10) (aged 65)
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party (After 1952)
Alma materNihon University
Junichiro Koizumi and Junya Koizumi

Life and career

Koizumi was born Junya Samejima (鮫島 純也, Samejima Jun'ya) in Higashi-Kaseda, Kagoshima Prefecture (now part of Minami-Satsuma); his family were fishermen. He attended high school at night while working in a department store, and then attended law classes at Nihon University while working as a secretary to a Diet member. He graduated in 1930 and joined the Rikken Minseitō political party. He was elected to the Diet in 1937.

He married Yoshie Koizumi, the daughter of Rikken Minseitō director and postal minister Matajirō Koizumi, taking her family name. Junya and Yoshie Koizumi had six children, including Jun'ichirō Koizumi, who later became the Prime Minister of Japan.

Koizumi was purged from politics by the Allied occupation government in the late 1940s, but returned to the Diet in 1952. He was a close ally of Nobusuke Kishi in the postwar years, served as Vice-Minister of Justice under Ichirō Hatoyama and became Director General of the Japan Defense Agency under Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō.

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