Kotaro Koizumi is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese actor and the eldest son of the former Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party , he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the...

, and Kayoko Miyamoto.

Kotaro Koizumi has two younger brothers, Shinjiro Koizumi

Shinjirō Koizumi

is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is the second son of former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and younger brother of actor Kotaro Koizumi. He was elected into his father's former seat representing the Kanagawa 11th district in 2009.- External links :*...

, and Yoshinaga Miyamoto, who was not born at the time of his parents' divorce in 1982. Junichiro Koizumi was awarded custody of Kotaro and Shinjiro while Kayoko Miyamoto was awarded custody of Yoshinaga. He went on to Kanto Gakuin Mutsuura Junior High School and High School, but did not enter Kanto Gakuin University

Kanto Gakuin University

is a private university located in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. The school's official English name is Mabie Memorial School.-History:It traces its roots to The Baptist Theological Seminary of Yokohama established by Albert Arnold Bennett, a missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, in...

. Kotaro attended Nihon University

Nihon University

Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....

 School of Economics, but dropped out. Japanese press reports say that one of Junichiro Koizumi's sisters raised Kotaro and Shinjiro. Kotaro got his own weekly show on Fuji TV called "Kōtarō ga Yuku" (Kotaro Goes). He has also acted in TV drama

Japanese television drama

, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...

s.

Television

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...
  
  - won the maximum ten million yen on a celebrity special

Dramas

• Gokusen 3 (2008)
• Otoko no Kosodate (2007)
• Hanayome to Papa (2007)
• Attention Please SP (2007)
• Haken no Hinkaku (2007)
• Fushin no Toki (2006)
• Attention Please
  Attention Please
  is a manga by Chieko Hosokawa about the training of flight attendants for Japan Airlines originally serialized in Shōjo Friend from Kodansha beginning in 1970. Tokyo Broadcasting System adapted a TV drama from the manga in 1970. Thirty-six years later, Fuji TV produced a new drama series in 2006...
  
   (2006)
• Gachi Baka (2006)
• Tokyo Wonder Tours (2005)
• Slow Dance (2005)
• Yoshitsune (drama) (2005)
• Division 1 "Pink Hip Girl" (Fuji TV, 2004)
• Igi Ari, Onna Bengoshi Oka Norie (2004)
• Korogashi Ogin (転がしお銀) (2003)
• Boku dake no Madonna (2003)
• Home & Away (2002)
• Kurutta Kajitsu 2002 (狂った果実2002) (2002)
• Shiawase No Shippo (2002)
• Hatsu Taiken (2002)
• Nurseman (2002)

Movies

• Bayside Shakedown 3 as Shigeru Koike
• Udon
  Udon
  is a type of thick wheat-flour noodle of Japanese cuisine.Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in its simplest form as kake udon, in a mildly flavoured broth called kakejiru which is made of dashi, soy sauce , and mirin. It is usually topped with thinly chopped scallions...
  
   (2006) as Udon shop customers
• Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Fighting Demons (2005) as Takeshi
• Koshonin Mashita Masayoshi (2005) as Shigeru Koike
• Bayside Shakedown 2
  Bayside Shakedown 2
  is the second movie based on the popular Bayside Shakedown TV series, known for its unique and humorous depiction of the Japanese police force while avoiding the conventions that define most police dramas...
  
  (2003) as Shigeru Koike

External links

• Official Site (Japanese)
• JDORama Site (Japanese)