Bunmei Ibuki is a Japanese politician.
Ibuki in 2013
Bunmei Ibuki as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2006)
Ibuki with Enrique peǹa Nieto (2013)
Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician serving as the Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2021. Asō previously served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009 and as Deputy Prime Minister of Japan and Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2021. He was the longest-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Japanese history, having previously served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications from 2003 to 2005. He leads the Shikōkai faction within the LDP.
Official portrait, 2017
Tarō Asō meeting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on 18 February 2009.
Tarō Asō meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush in the White House on 14 November 2008.
Tarō Asō meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on 24 February 2009.