Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will reform the Liberal Democratic Party after the country's parliament voted to keep him at the helm.
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00:00Japan's new Prime Minister, Shibashigeru, has said that he will reform his party after
00:05the country's parliament voted to keep him in power.
00:07We have received the results of this tough election.
00:12We, the people, must be reborn as a nation that should have a nation-state.
00:22We will accept what the people are suffering, what they are saddened by, and what they are angry about as our own issues.
00:36Ishiba now must win over the opposition to get his policies through parliament, after
00:40his Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner lost their majority in the
00:44October election.
00:46Ishiba faces foreign policy challenges, including a more aggressive China and U.S. President-elect
00:51Donald Trump's protectionist approach to trade.
00:53Ishiba has said that he wants to meet with Trump to maintain good relations.