Prime Minister Delivers Policy Speech
at Opening of 150th Session of the Diet
Upon the opening of the 150th session of the National Diet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori delivered a policy speech to both houses of the legislature. He pronounced an information-technology strategy, the "e-Japan" initiative, the most important pillar of the "rebirth of Japan." He stated that he would "promptly formulate a national IT strategy for realizing a 'Japanese IT society,'" which he defined as "a society in which all people can share information and knowledge on the basis of digital information and freely exchange that information." Declaring that "guiding the IT revolution to success also hinges upon each and every individual taking a leading role in the net, imparting new knowledge and devising new mechanisms," he pledged to "launch the largest ever national movement to ensure that people nationwide are capable of using the Internet."
