When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.