A renewed determination for revitalization

Japan has made remarkable progress in responding to the disaster over the past 12 months. We renew our commitment to learn from the great difficulties we have faced. I firmly believe that this period of difficulty must, and indeed will, come to mark the start of a full-fledged revitalization of Japan,

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The Human Dimension

Why do you want to be someone else?

Trying to look like someone else or trying to emulate someone else's life is not the road to take. It is the road to avoid. The world may pressure some of us into conforming to its standards of beauty, style and elegance. But those standards are not necessarily the right ones, as some of us have discovered at great personal cost,

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South Asia: overcoming terror with a regional commitment to peace

First of all, let me thank Indian Council World Affairs and Association of Asian Scholars for inviting me to this prestigious venue, Sapru House, to participate in the Asian Relations Conference. Since the ICWA's beginning in 1943, I understand great scholars and leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and many others have voiced their ideas at this renowned institute.

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