33 Quotes by Heizo Takenaka

a big loss for the future of Japan.

It was extremely regrettable. The legislation was an important milestone. The rejection is a major loss to the Japanese economy.

It's a decision made by the markets and I don't think that decision is that far off economic fundamentals,

It's the beginning of a new era in Japanese economy.

The BOJ used its authority to make the decision even though deflation remains a problem. I hope the bank is prepared to take responsibility for its actions.

The bank needs to more specifically define its criteria for ending its quantitative easing policy.

The census shows the population is in a declining phase.

Instead of fighting frantically over this pie, there is an opportunity to grow it to 40,000 billion yen or 100,000 billion yen.

In addition we have to make progress on the restructuring of lending by state-run institutions, personnel costs and the government's balance sheet. We need to have a basic plan on these three issues within about a month.