It was a big earthquake. I would like our party to place top priority on earthquake measures,

I had hoped we would win a majority with our party alone, but we did even better than that, ... I thank the nation for its support and understanding.

No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution in the LDP,

No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution in the LDP.

Even after Galileo was found guilty of heresy, he still said, 'The Earth moves,

I think this is an important report which allows for stable imperial succession,