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 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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We did not expect this. I don't think our policies were wrong, but we must reconsider our tactics.
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If you make your voting decision based only on the postal privatization, it would mean (Koizumi) would exploit it and would say the public entrusted him with all other decisions as well.
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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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The biggest reason for our defeat is that we lost a lot of seats in urban areas where we were supposed have major support,
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Koizumi speaks as if everything will be rosy for Japan if only these bills are passed,
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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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For those who think the current pension system isn't working, we want you to vote for the Democratic Party and let us carry through pension reforms under a Democratic administration.
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Koizumi always says the same thing. Nearly 90 percent of his speech is about postal privatization issues. This election will decide the next three to four years of Japan's future, and important issues should be thoroughly discussed.
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The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.
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True reform can only happen with a change in government.
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We'd like to celebrate the news with the people.
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The overall situation has now become clear the DPJ has suffered a great setback.
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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.