How amazing that the British newspaper interview with the Prime Minister is exactly like that of Japanese ones? Or it is not so amazing at all? Perhaps not. There is a draft for every interview.

It must be very important in Japan to be not aggressive. I wonder what would ever happen to anything? I do think where he directs us, is the way to go. Yet, would that happen in near future? Couldn't there be a better, faster way? For, timing is everything.

Don't kid us around -- the leader of our country being afraid of being called some name or the other? By whom? I don't understand. If he does want the favor of all of them, that would require the exact status of what 'the people in his own party' said. What are needed here are their agreements on some terms and not favor.

→ Times interview with Japanese Prime Minister: transcript