To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.
Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.
I'm quite an advocate of free trade.