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

Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

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

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.

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.

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.