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Daily Times での記事より
Kan takes power as new Japanese PM
* Former leftist activist pledges economic recovery, close ties with Washington
TOKYO: Former finance minister Naoto Kan became Japan’s new leader on Friday, pledging economic recovery and close ties with Washington after his predecessor quit amid a damaging dispute over a US airbase.
A parliamentary vote confirmed Kan as successor to Yukio Hatoyama, who tearfully resigned as prime minister on Wednesday, citing the row over the base on Japan’s Okinawa island and financing scandals that had sullied his government.
Kan, a former leftist activist, is Japan’s fifth premier in four years, and the first in over a decade not to hail from a political dynasty. The 63-year-old previously served as deputy premier in Hatoyama’s centre-left government, which came to power last year in a groundbreaking election ending decades of conservative rule.
“My first job is to rebuild the country, and to create a party in which all members can stand up together and say with confidence, ‘We can do it!’” a smiling Kan said after his party earlier installed him as its new leader.
Kan vowed to revitalise Asia’s biggest economy, which has been in the doldrums since an investment bubble burst in the early 1990s. “For the past 20 years, the Japanese economy has been at a standstill,” said Kan. “Growth has stopped. Young people can’t find jobs. This is not a natural phenomenon. It resulted from policy mistakes. I believe we can achieve a strong economy, strong finances and strong social welfare all at the same time,” he said, pledging to reduce Japan’s huge public debt, which is nearing 200 percent of gross domestic product.
Signalling closer engagement with East Asia, he said later, “Japan is located in a very good region geopolitically. Asia has seen great development … Japan is part of it, potentially in a position to have a complementary relationship with developing China, India and Vietnam.”
On foreign policy, Kan also pointed to the threat posed by communist North Korea, where the isolated and nuclear-armed regime has been blamed for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
“Japan has a lot of problems, including the North Korean issue,” said Kan, stressing that US-Japanese ties remain the “cornerstone” of foreign policy after Hatoyama badly strained relations with Washington.
Hatoyama’s support plummeted after he backtracked on an election promise to move the unpopular US base off Okinawa, enraging locals as well as the pacifist Social Democrats, who quit his coalition. Kan said he would honour an agreement reconfirmed last week to relocate the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa. afp
以下は
Daily Times での記事より
Kan takes power as new Japanese PM
* Former leftist activist pledges economic recovery, close ties with Washington
TOKYO: Former finance minister Naoto Kan became Japan’s new leader on Friday, pledging economic recovery and close ties with Washington after his predecessor quit amid a damaging dispute over a US airbase.
A parliamentary vote confirmed Kan as successor to Yukio Hatoyama, who tearfully resigned as prime minister on Wednesday, citing the row over the base on Japan’s Okinawa island and financing scandals that had sullied his government.
Kan, a former leftist activist, is Japan’s fifth premier in four years, and the first in over a decade not to hail from a political dynasty. The 63-year-old previously served as deputy premier in Hatoyama’s centre-left government, which came to power last year in a groundbreaking election ending decades of conservative rule.
“My first job is to rebuild the country, and to create a party in which all members can stand up together and say with confidence, ‘We can do it!’” a smiling Kan said after his party earlier installed him as its new leader.
Kan vowed to revitalise Asia’s biggest economy, which has been in the doldrums since an investment bubble burst in the early 1990s. “For the past 20 years, the Japanese economy has been at a standstill,” said Kan. “Growth has stopped. Young people can’t find jobs. This is not a natural phenomenon. It resulted from policy mistakes. I believe we can achieve a strong economy, strong finances and strong social welfare all at the same time,” he said, pledging to reduce Japan’s huge public debt, which is nearing 200 percent of gross domestic product.
Signalling closer engagement with East Asia, he said later, “Japan is located in a very good region geopolitically. Asia has seen great development … Japan is part of it, potentially in a position to have a complementary relationship with developing China, India and Vietnam.”
On foreign policy, Kan also pointed to the threat posed by communist North Korea, where the isolated and nuclear-armed regime has been blamed for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
“Japan has a lot of problems, including the North Korean issue,” said Kan, stressing that US-Japanese ties remain the “cornerstone” of foreign policy after Hatoyama badly strained relations with Washington.
Hatoyama’s support plummeted after he backtracked on an election promise to move the unpopular US base off Okinawa, enraging locals as well as the pacifist Social Democrats, who quit his coalition. Kan said he would honour an agreement reconfirmed last week to relocate the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa. afp
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