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I will remain active in judo.
We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.
I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.
The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government.
While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.
In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.
The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.
The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.
The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.
Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.
While having policy debate, we need to hold the race in a way to attract people toward the DPJ.
A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.
I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.
I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.
As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.
There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.
Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons
Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.
The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.
I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.
To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time. For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances where bullets are flying around like rain and wind, if you want them to get some rest, a comfort women system was necessary. That’s clear to anyone.
We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.