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Former Prime Minister Of Japan Inspirational Quotes (26)

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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
Yoshihiko Noda
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
Yoshihiko Noda
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.'
Junichiro Koizumi
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.
Naoto Kan
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
Yoshihiko Noda
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A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
Naoto Kan
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Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.
Junichiro Koizumi
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.
Naoto Kan
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
Yoshihiko Noda
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
Naoto Kan
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
Naoto Kan
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This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.
Junichiro Koizumi
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Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.
Junichiro Koizumi
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
Naoto Kan
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I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.
Junichiro Koizumi
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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.
Yoshihiko Noda
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
Naoto Kan
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The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.
Naoto Kan
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