Junichiro Koizumi, the newly elected Liberal Democratic Party president who is set to become prime minister, faces a rough road in trying to deliver the economic reforms he promised in his campaign.

With the Upper House election set for July, his emphasis on fiscal and economic structural reforms may shift to progrowth policies as he will probably have to compromise with LDP factions and his party's coalition partners, which are nervous about the pain reforms might cause voters.

Throughout his campaign, he called for changing the country.