I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
“I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.”
“In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.”