The result was more than I expected, ... The Japanese people said they wanted to keep reform, not stop reform. That was the voice of the people. |
The result was more than I expected, ... The Japanese people said, `Please do not stop the reform, keep continuing the reform.' |
The results were just as I had expected. |
The role that Japan has thus far played can be a firm foundation for it becoming a permanent member of the Security Council. |
The situation of each (Upper House) member is different. I have asked (the LDP leadership) to carefully consider it, |
The top priority entrusted to me is to reinvigorate the economy and establish a society that's full of confidence and pride, ... economic, fiscal, administrative, social and political structural reforms. |
The upper house decided that postal privatization is not needed. So I would like to ask the general public whether it supports or opposes it. That's why I dissolved Parliament, ... I will do my best to win the elections so that I can continue the reforms. |
The visit is not intended to justify or glorify World War Two, but I want to pay respect and gratitude to those who, against their own will, were pulled into battle and died, |
The world has changed dramatically over the last 60 years. Asia and Africa, once under the shackles of colonialism, are now significant players in our global community, |
There are issues that must be dealt with both from the point of view of medical treatment and the Penal Code, |
There are no surprises this time around, |
There have been calls for more fiscal spending and an increase in public works, and demands that an extra budget be compiled, |
There is an argument that if U.S.-Japan relations are too good, Japan could lose its direction, |
There is no change in the difficult situation, but people are saying there is a fifty-fifty chance of them passing, so we must keep up our efforts until the end, |
There is no end to reform, ... I will have to advance reform more than ever from now on. |