No country can secure its own peace alone anymore. That is why it is incumbent upon us in Japan to reconstruct the legal basis for collective self-defense and international cooperation, including participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations – a reform that my administration has begun.
如今，已没有一个国家能够完全自力更生确保和平。因此，我们日本人有责任重新构建集体自卫与国际合作的法律基础，包括参与联合国的维和行动——我的政府已经开始了这项改革。