While you were running all these past programs, projects, whatnot, during the pandemic, you, Mr. Tang, sorry, Audrey Tang…

Thank you.

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Initially, you were doing political work as a politician, and now you are engaged in various projects and programs. You have completed a lot of past goals and so on, so forth. Those things that you have been working on your past programs, goals, whatnot, have they changed since you ...

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First of all, I now understand that you were able to open the file and see the questions. We’re going to go according to that script. Our first question is, you joined the ministry in 2016. It has been five years already. Looking back, can you tell us how you ...

Here I would like to change over to the interviewer. That’s Mr. Murakami. Mr. Murakami, he is a writer. We look forward to interviewing you.

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We would like to hear about how, what you think about things, how you deal with things and so on, not as an official but also as a person, how you go about things, those are the things that we are interested in.

Thank you very much.

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We’re going to be talking about, and we’d like to ask you about turning points, inflection points, if any, when you encountered failure, then when you were down on yourself. How you were able to recover from that?

Today we are going to be interviewing you for our magazine “Learning Design” which I just held up, and it’s going to be under our series “Living My Life”.

Thank you very much.

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At the end of this interview the CEO of our company, he would like to come in and say a lot of thanks to you. Please be aware of that.

Today we have 4 persons from the editors’ team. The interview will be conducted by Mr. Murakami and the interpreter is Mijikta.