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...without any consensus in the international community. At this point in time the United States has reconfirmed and recognized the fact that such disputes will not be settled by a single country. In other words, when it comes to an exercise of power by the United States alone, then Japan is not able to go along. But if the international dispute settlement is arranged within the U.N. framework, with the cooperation of the international community, then my view is that Japan should be proactive in rendering support as much as possible. That position is starkly different from the position taken...
...TIME: The Obama administration stresses cooperation in Afghanistan. What would a DPJ-led government do about increasing Japan's role there...
...OZAWA: As far as Afghanistan is concerned, there is a U.N.-led military organization there called ISAF. Japan will be able to render as much support as possible to that kind of organization under a DPJ government. However, what ISAF is trying to do is to bring peace by suppression, by force. My philosophy is that no people can be ruled by sheer force. In the past Afghanistan was a self-sustaining country in terms of food supply, but now the self-sufficiency rate has plunged to a level of 40%. They are living in a kind of sheer poverty...
...pictures of Japan and the world...
...TIME: The relationship between Japan and China is obviously one of those things that interests the whole world, not just the region. How do you see the two countries relating to each other in the next few years...