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On the evening of August 24, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda held a special press conference at the Prime Minister's Office on the issue regarding remote islands in light of the recent situation of Takeshima and the Senkaku Islands.
PM Noda spoke “It is incumbent on us now to carefully examine the importance that such remote islands have for Japan, as well as to make "all Japan" efforts which cut across the barriers of ruling and opposition parties in order to assert what Japan ought to assert and to steadily pursue efforts which Japan ought to pursue,” presenting three actions to take: (1) the stable protection and management of remote islands, (2) the bolstering of patrol arrangements in nearby waters, (3) our efforts to communicate the legitimacy of Japan's position (on our territories and territorial waters) to the outside world.
An English translation is available on the website as follows:
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/noda/statement/201208/24kaiken_e.html
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