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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.

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development.

Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.