If we cannot achieve postal reform, then what kind of administrative reforms can we do in the future? ... Politics is not to benefit a limited number of people, but it's for the happiness of all the people.

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This is the administration to continue reform, ... Even after I leave in September of next year, I do not think that someone who diverts from Koizumi's reform policy will become the next prime minister.

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