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.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

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

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.

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