Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance fro
Official portrait, 2017
Asō (seated, far right) with other members of the International Club at Stanford University, 1965
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.
The secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party is a high-ranking position within the Japanese conservative party, the Liberal Democratic Party. According to the LDP constitution, the secretary-