We are in a new era, a new age, a new dawn is rising in Japan and we must do all we can to accept and work for the future of this country and our children. The past five years have been far from easy for our people with a new government a new way of living foreign to us but the perseverance of our will we have adapted as countless times before. We nearly destroyed ourselves through greed, near sighted goals, and bitter in fighting in our military. We can no longer afford any of that if we are to move forward to our new dawn we were granted. By all rights and all consideration we should be a country of ghosts and ghouls yet we stand here today and we must not take this in vain.

The occupation of our country is drawing to a close and the Japanese people will be on our own again with the world watching and waiting. We must not give them cause for alarm nor to give them any reason as to point to our misgivings in the war. The United States of America has vowed to protect the Asian region from the spread of Communism which we are all too aware of. Our people suffered greatly from incursions and we cannot stray from the course we are set upon now. To jump our course would be worse than any defeat we suffered from the war and that the Japanese people cannot stand for.

We have our cultural identity and it will stay intact and we shall as always govern ourselves. That being said we are still an occupied nation and at this moment we draw strength from the United States. Our countries are tied by fate and by many other factors that run to our core. We are not subservient we are also not a land full of uprising as many predicted. After the occupation of our island is ended we will not turn our backs to those who showed mercy; we will be our independent purely Japanese state with that comes obligations to those we owe our continued existence to.

We are one as we are dedicated to the further advancement that I know we can easily accomplish. Let us show the world that has cast its gaze upon us that we will not stumble we will not fall. We shall stand strong without allies and build something we could never have accomplished as an empire. Let us show those with misgivings that they need not worry we will stand on our word as a people of dedication and let our actions speak louder than words. That is how we will make our place in this new era of the world and let the world see Japan as a friend not as an enemy.

Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan