Editing Takeo Fukuda (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Jimmy Carter with Queen Elizabeth - NARA - 174724.jpg|thumb|200px|with [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]], [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]], [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]], [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]] and the leaders of the [[G7]] (in [[London]] on 13 May 1977)]]
Fukuda was married and had five children: three sons and two daughters.<ref name=pace/> His eldest son, [[Yasuo Fukuda]], became prime minister in September 2007, after the sudden resignation of Shinzō Abe, and remained in that office for one year, making him the first son of a Japanese prime minister to become a prime minister himself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2500575.ece|title=The reluctant Prime Minister prepares to step up to the plate|first=Richard|last=Parry|date=21 September 2007|work=The Times Online|publisher=News International Group}}</ref> In addition, Prime Minister [[Junichiro Koizumi]] began his political career as a secretary to Fukuda, and the two were very close in their political and personal lives from the 1970s onward (Fukuda was the best man at Koizumi's wedding).

In his 1977 speech delivered to [[ASEAN]], Fukuda identified controversial [[Philippines|Filipino]] dictator [[Ferdinand Marcos]] as a close friend of his.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1980|title=Speech by Takeo Fukuda|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25797604|journal=Contemporary Southeast Asia|publisher=ISEAS—Yusof Ishak Institute|volume=2|issue=1|pages=69–73|jstor=25797604|issn=0129-797X}}</ref>