60090 The second goal is "creation of intellectual assets which will be handed over to the next generation," and we will promote more satisfactory basic studies and more creative technological development to create new industrial fields.
60091 The third goal is "the creation of a gentle society where everyone lives in peace."
60092 We aim to establish a gentle society where people live in peace, despite the aged society with a decreasing birthrate, as well as realizing a society without guns and drugs.
60093 In the fourth item, "the creation of world peace established by international contribution which is suitable for our country," we will address individual issues on misdeeds of the last war.
60094 Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who returned to Oita Prefecture, his hometown, for the first time after he took office, completed his four-day schedule to arrive at Haneda Airport by a Japan Airline flight in the evening of December 31.
60095 He told journalists, "In spite of my sudden return to Oita, the local people welcomed me warmly, so I was very grateful to them in my hometown. I felt that I must make further efforts in response to their anticipation."
60096 This year, the Socialist Party is going to address the realization of the "new democratic and liberal party" concept upon which the existence of the party is staked.
60097 We will determine the organization policy of the new party at the extraordinary convention that is scheduled for around February 11, and will be appealing to other parties and citizens' organizations.
60098 However, while almost all the members of the former Democratic Socialist Party participated in the New Frontier Party, we have not yet decided our partner, as our connections with New Party Sakigake are still unstable.
60099 Since "the New Democratic League" has not changed their policy to start a preparatory committee for their own new party this month, the executive members including Wataru Kubo, General Secretary of the SPJ, will be forced to effectively manage the party in the difficult situation in which the party may split.
60100 At the beginning, Kubo assumed that the Democratic Socialist Party which is mainly supported by Rengo, the Democratic Reform Party, the New Party Sakigake, and a part of the Japan New Party were appropriate as partners of the new party.
60101 However, the Democratic Socialist Party participated in the New Frontier Party.
60102 The Democratic Reform Party is hesitating to participate, as they would like to gain support from the New Frontier Party in the Upper House election scheduled for this summer.
60103 It is reported that as Kubo had frequent contacts with Masayoshi Takemura, Representative of Sakigake, aiming at their participation, Takemura came to be interested in cooperation with them, but it is also reported that members of Sakigake resist taking risks, because they consider that "social democracy is different from conservative liberalism."
60104 Radicals of the New Democratic League asserted that the new party should be established before summoning an ordinary session of the Diet.