The LDP presidential election will be held on October 4. Many media reports indicate that the three-way race among Koizumi, Koichi, and Hayashi is almost certain to result in a runoff between two of the three candidates. In addition, a September 30 Asahi Shimbun survey of 295 Diet members affiliated with the party (excluding the chairmen of both houses of the Diet) showed Koizumi in first place, Hayashi in second, and Takaichi in third, according to the Asahi Shimbun. [Image] Christel Takigawa, who had more than 10 stitches after falling on her bicycle, “The side of her eyebrows around her eyes are puckered,” a shocking cut that caused her to fall off her bicycle. In addition to the “stealth scandal,” there have been reports in the weekly newspapers and other media of unsavory stories about Koizumi’s surroundings. If that happens, his wife Christel Takigawa (48) will become the First Lady, but it is said that she has told Koizumi that she does not want him to become the prime minister at this time. Takigawa does not want to become the wife of the prime minister at this time. In the October 2 issue of “Josei Seven” (Shogakukan), Takigawa is reported to have told an acquaintance that she does not want to become the wife of the prime minister at this time and that her husband Shinjiro does not need to become prime minister just yet. Takigawa, who updated her Instagram in August 2019 to report her marriage to Koizumi, also wrote, “It was also reassuring to feel in our discussions that he respects my way of life and style, as I am and as I am, without being bound by the formality of what a politician’s wife should be like. Takigawa is not a so-called “politician’s wife” and is not deeply involved in Koizumi’s political activities and rarely visits Koizumi’s hometown. As she clearly stated, “I am not bound by the form of ‘what a politician’s wife should be like,'” Ms. Takigawa seems to have the idea that “a husband is her husband and she is herself. She herself is involved in business and animal welfare activities, and it is believed that she has a strong desire to devote herself to those activities at the moment.
