In the fall of 2002, Koizumi appointed Keio University economist and frequent television commentator Heizō Takenaka as Minister of State for Financial Services and head of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) to fix the country's banking crisis.
Na podzim roku 2002 Koizumi jmenoval ekonoma a častého televizního komentátora Heiza Takenaku ministrem pro finanční služby a hlavou Agentury finančních služeb, aby ustál bankovní krizi v zemi.