In order to prevent the past year's changes from ending up as temporary
phenomena and to keep the positive economic cycle rotating, we must awaken
Japanese people's and companies' original potential to improve the entire Japanese
economy's productivity and its “earning power”. Now that the economy is about
to break free from protracted deflation, we should be determined that this is a
golden opportunity and the last chance to gear up the Growth Strategy and take
bold measures to restore Japan's “earning power” with a spirit to turn around
Japanese companies' characteristics, institutions and practices drastically.