Top �� What's up around the Prime Minister �� April, 2004

Prime Minister Delivers Address to New National Public Employees Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi attended the ceremony inaugurating the joint training for new national public employees held at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center located in Yoyogi, Tokyo, and delivered an address to the new national public employees. The joint training is conducted for newly hired national public employees, for whom there are expectations as core personnel in administrative management in the future, and aims to promote their awareness as servants of the greater good of all and to nurture their views in deliberating measures considering the full perspective of the people of Japan. The joint training is held in camp-style and participated by approximately 750 people this year. Addressing the newly hired national public employees, Prime Minister Koizumi said, "I am sure you know the saying, 'Never forget how you felt as a novice.' I am sure each and everyone of you are having various images about what it is to be a public employee. Possessing the genuine wish to serve the nation and the people is the most important factor for public employees. The word 'novice' implies the inexperience that people have at first. I sincerely hope that novices will contemplate their own inexperience, humbly deepen their knowledge and enrich their views. The basics are important in all that you do, and therefore I expect that you steadily acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for administration. I congratulate you on your boundless future and look forward to your successes."