Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi handpicked Abe as his successor to continue his administration’s central policies: divorcing the LDP from pork-barrel politics and consolidating the huge non-performing loans in the private sector that resulted from the collapse of Japan’s property market bubble in the early 1990’s. By revitalizing and modernizing Japan’s financial system, and by getting politicians out of the game, Koizumi intended to reinvigorate the Japanese economy.
前首相小泉纯一郎亲手挑选了安倍作为他的继任者，继续推行其政府的核心政策：让自民党摆脱分肥政治，整顿上世纪90年代日本房地产市场泡沫破灭造成的私有部门大量的不良贷款。小泉意图通过重振和改革日本的金融制度，将政客从游戏中驱逐出去，从而使日本经济复兴。