Economy and his countrys relationships with the u. S. , china, and north korea. This is about 35 minutes. [applause] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am shinzo abe. Thank you very much for inviting me. I am delighted to see so many guests from the United States, as well as the nations of asia. Please, enjoy your stay in japan. It has been more than four years since i have retaken the government. Japan, before that, under the rule of the Democratic Party of japan was enwrapped with pesism with a sense of deregulation. With a sense of resignation. The economy was struggling with deflation. Japan was not able to make its presence felt in the international arena. Population is shrinking. Thus, we can no longer expect growth. Japan is already in its twilight years. We often heard looming large before us to give it all up. The stock price at the time was less than half of what it is today, over 8000 ynen or so. I stood up to take on the challenge. I promised to restore japan to what she
Economy and his countrys relationships with the u. S. , china, and north korea. This is about 35 minutes. [applause] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am shinzo abe. Thank you very much for inviting me. I am delighted to see so many guests from the United States, as well as the nations of asia. Please, enjoy your stay in japan. It has been more than four years since i have retaken the government. Japan, before that, under the rule of the Democratic Party of japan was enwrapped with pesism with a sense of deregulation. With a sense of resignation. The economy was struggling with deflation. Japan was not able to make its presence felt in the international arena. Population is shrinking. Thus, we can no longer expect growth. Japan is already in its twilight years. We often heard looming large before us to give it all up. The stock price at the time was less than half of what it is today, over 8000 ynen or so. I stood up to take on the challenge. I promised to restore japan to what she
Pessimism with a since of resignation. Japan was struggling with inflation. Japan was not able to make its presence felt in the international arena. Population is shrinking, thus it can no longer expect growth, japan is already in its twilight years, such was the lament we often heard looming large before us to give it all up. The stock price, at the time, was less than half of what it is today over 8,000 yen or so. I stood up to take on the challenge. I promised to restore japan to what she use to be. How is japan today . During the past four years through our economic policies, nominal gdp has grown by 9. 5 , adding 47 trillion yen, an alltime high. Employment, which decreased by 290,000 jobs in the previous administration, despite the decline in population, rose by 1. 8 5 million in four years. Whats more, 82 of them, women, Unemployment Rate is at 2. 8 , almost full employment level. Number of regular workers increased by 790,000 just in the two years. And, actually, it has gone do
Please have a seat. I, as is often the case, i actually do have notes this time and it might even look at them, i dont know. Not sure and highly what will happen. We were blessed to be able to hear what you just heard, that indication of a student outside those doors. And you talk about just wanted to go home. I dont know that i can add anything to that. We are blessed indeed to be kentuckians. We are blessed indeed to be americans. We ar until blessed indeed to b i tell you, you read the preamble, if you dont believe that the things that we just heard in that invocation are indeed the very foundations of not only the commonwealth of kentucky but of our nation. Read the preamble to kentucky constitution. You will understand that there are core foundational underpinnings to what we value here in kentucky. Im grateful to each and every one of you in this chamber and those of you who are members of the house and of the senate, to our judiciary come certainly to speaker over and president
Rating a driver. We have been here before. A decade ago, wall street was riding high and producing gosling blooms and scandals. How do we make sense of what is going on in the tech world . Is the tech bubble about to burst . Joining me is max chafkin who has been covering uber. Richard edelman and william toan, especially jupiter vanity fair and author of why wall street matters. Max, i would like to start with you. One of the things that put uber in the spotlight is this extraordinarily video of released of travis in a cap arguing with an uber driver. This comes on top of the scandal when a female employee wrote a blog saying it is a sexist place to work. It is a combination of nightmares for the company. Tell us about the video. Max it has been an extraordinary month for uber. You did not mention the delete uber campaign. This video came to our beat reporter, eric newcomer, it was passed to him by a driver. It is clearly a dash cam video of Travis Kalanick, the c. E. O. Of uber, gett