Koizumi's Feisty Daughters

Four years ago they were called "assassins," but now they are known as "Koizumi's daughters". They are three women elected to Japan's Diet (parliament) on the coattails of Japan's last popular prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, in the 2005 general election.

Back then the Japanese press labeled these women, and others on the ruling party ticket, as "assas…