“Corporate governance is important for small- and medium-sized enterpri...” — Fumio Kishida Quote

“Corporate governance is important for small- and medium-sized enterprises, but they can't do it in the same way as big companies.”

“Japan welcomes the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework - IPEF - by President Biden, and will participate and cooperate in this initiative.”

“The G7 is based on key, shared fundamental values, including a commitment to maintain international order.”

“I struggle to get the big companies to trust me, or be willing to work with me.”

“The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets.”

“The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.”