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On December 24, 2017, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the 58th Press Photo Exhibition 2017 being held in Tokyo.

After viewing the photographs, the Prime Minister said,

“I believe this year was a year of examining how to deal with North Korea, which has become an urgent threat. How should we deal with the North Korean threat? How should we deal with the great obstacle of the declining birthrate and the aging population? I dissolved the House of Representatives and embarked on a general election in order to make a breakthrough and to deal with these situations that could be called ‘difficulties.’ This year was an eventful year, and I am glad to be able to end the year with a tremendous win in the general election. I will work to make good on my promises one by one next year. Seeing these photographs, I was reminded that this year was an eventful year.”