Katsuya Okada
Katsuya Okada
Katsuya Okadais a Japanese politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Japan from January to December 2012. A member of the House of Representatives of Japan, he is the President of the Democratic Party, and previously of the Democratic Party of Japan. He also served as Secretary-General of the DPJ three times. During the DPJ's period in government he was Foreign Minister of Japan...
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We've been steadily making efforts for this day. Now we have finally came to this opportunity to change the government.
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True reform can only happen with a change in government.
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We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,
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There is no time left. We must change the administration in order to ensure the success of the reform initiatives.
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This country will not change without a change of government,
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Unless we change the government now, it may be too late.
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Please change the government and give us a chance.
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The people had hopes that Koizumi would change the LDP, but he was not able to do that. Rather, domestic reform has not progressed, and foreign policy is beset on all sides.
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In his four years and four months in power, Koizumi was unable to carry out reform. In order to carry out true reform, there has to be a change in government. We are not fettered to past practices. Please let us handle the government.
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(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it.
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I think our party members staked (the party's future) on the Maehara's youth and ability ... It is utterly necessary for each DPJ lawmaker and other rank-and-file members to back the new leader and stick together.
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I don't believe that the people are naive enough to accept the prime minister's assertion that foreign affairs and other issues will be resolved if the postal services are privatized.
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I did what I had to do, but it was frustrating that we were never really arguing on the same plane. I wanted to debate policy.
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I firmly believe our stance to focus on our policies was not wrong. Our message did not reach people. I regret that.