Yoshihiko Noda quotes

Yoshihiko Noda is a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan. His leadership focused on addressing the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and implementing economic reforms. He remains an influential figure within the Democratic Party of Japan and Japanese politics. Here are 11 of his quotes:

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Yoshihiko Noda

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

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A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

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With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

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