The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people..

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contr….

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily li….

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost impo….

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our pe….

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time i….

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which….

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished..

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pur….