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  • SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, Ambassador.

  • Thank you very much. (Applause.) Please, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am enormously

  • grateful (inaudible). Winston Churchill said the only reason people ever give a standing

  • ovation is they desperately need an excuse to shift their underwear. (Laughter.) I know

  • you had a much more noble cause in mind. (Laughter.) And I thank you for that.

  • Charles, thank you for a very warm introduction. I'm very grateful. And there's nothing worse

  • than parachuting into a dinner, interrupting people's meal. You don't have any idea what

  • everybody's been talking about and you're going to give a speech for a few minutes.

  • But I'm going to try and do that as effectively as I can.

  • I'm really honored to be here. As you all know - it was mentioned in the introduction

  • by Charles - I used to be an elected official. I was a senator for 29 years. So I used to

  • go to things and say, "It's nice to be invited anywhere." (Laughter.) And now that may be

  • more true, I don't know. (Laughter.)

  • I was walking through an airport a few months before I was nominated to be Secretary of

  • State, and it was up in Boston. This guy points at me - you know that note of recognition

  • as you're walking and you see the eyes fix on you or something - and he said, "Hey you.

  • Hey, anybody ever tell you, you look like that Kerry guy we sent down to Washington?"

  • (Laughter.) And I said perfectly normally, I said, "Yeah, they tell me that all the time."

  • (Laughter.) He says, "Kind of makes you mad, doesn't it?" (Laughter.) So I'm really lucky

  • to be out of that and happy to be here.

  • It's wonderful to be here with Tom Donohue and with all of you celebrating the 50th year

  • of the U.S.-Japanese Business Conference. And I can tell looking out at the ballroom

  • - and I think - where's Tom Nides? Is he here somewhere? No, not Tom Donohue. Tom Nides.

  • Is he here? Somebody told me Nides was going to be here. Well, anyway - well, I've now

  • outed him. He skipped the dinner. (Laughter.) Trouble.

  • But I know a lot of the folks who are here, and this is a very powerful group of smart

  • business people, all of whom understand the new global economy that we are dealing with,

  • and as Tom and I were talking just walking in here, a much more complex world in many

  • ways than the world that we grew used to through the latter part of the 20th century. The Cold

  • War was really simple compared to what we're looking at today, with the rise of sectarianism,

  • religious extremism, the challenges of global barriers breaking down, masses of young people

  • all around the planet desperate for education, for jobs, for opportunity, for a reach at

  • the brass ring.

  • And relationships like ours, the relationship between Japan and the United States, are even

  • that much more important when you think about the complexity and the importance of alliances

  • in this new global economy and with these multiple challenges that we all face. If anybody

  • doubts the importance of this particular relationship, let me just tell you that all you have to

  • do is look at my schedule just for this week. This is my third event with Ambassador Sasae

  • this week. (Laughter.) And I think it underscores the importance - I had the privilege of being

  • with him when we swore in Caroline Kennedy and a wonderful reception at his home to toast

  • her, and literally within hours she is on an airplane right now and she will land in

  • a couple of hours in Tokyo and begin her journey there.

  • So Mr. Ambassador, I can promise you, as I've said previously, President Obama is sending

  • somebody to represent the United States in Japan who truly has his ear and his respect.

  • And she is a very accomplished individual - author, lawyer, a convener of people for

  • all kinds of things through her lifetime. In many ways, she's been an ambassador all

  • her life, as I said at her swearing-in. And obviously, with her work with the Kennedy

  • Library, her work as the chief of the partnership for schools and education in New York City,

  • and so many other efforts, I believe she's going to really take our relationship to new

  • heights, and we're excited about that.

  • It's not inappropriate with Caroline Kennedy on that airplane and as we mark the 50th anniversary

  • of the loss of President Kennedy that we remember what President Kennedy said 50 years ago.

  • He urged Americans to look inter-continentally instead of inwardly, to bridge oceans with

  • purposeful partnerships. And he said that we must "look outward to cooperate with all

  • nations in meeting their common concerns." I don't think that that charge has ever been

  • more important than it really is today.

  • Fifty years later, with President Obama's leadership with respect to our outreach, to

  • the rebalance in Asia, we are bringing that commitment and we are particularly bringing

  • that commitment to our partnership with Japan. As the President said in Tokyo on his first

  • visit in his first year in office, the Pacific Ocean doesn't separate us as much as it connects

  • us. And I think the same can be said and most of us here would feel the same way about the

  • shared values that have brought us through these 50 years and more in a period of enormous

  • transformation for both of our countries.

  • We also know, however, that you can't rest on the past. It never works. You need to keep

  • revitalizing the alliance and reframing it. Secretary Hagel and I paid a visit just a

  • short time ago to Japan. We were in Tokyo for what we call a 2+2, which is Defense Secretary

  • and Secretary of State meeting their counterparts. And we worked very closely there in order

  • to forge a new framework for our alliance for the first time in nearly twenty years.

  • We are not just recommitting to the partnership that has been the cornerstone of Asia's security

  • and prosperity for the past six decades, we are reinvigorating and redefining the ways

  • that we need to carry that relationship into the future.

  • And I think as you look at our work together, whether it's on security, on trade, on global

  • challenges and people-to-people ties, we are proving true what Prime Minister Abe said

  • in Washington: No one should ever doubt the strength of this remarkable alliance. Now,

  • we could not be more pleased with the initiative of Prime Minister Abe and the work that he

  • is doing now to strengthen Japan and its alliance and also, frankly, to play a more robust and

  • more engaged role within the region, which is important, and we welcome that initiative

  • and that effort.

  • Today, we have the opportunity to, frankly, break new ground in how we keep countries

  • safe, how we help economies to mature, how we create new jobs and embrace partnerships

  • for the future. And I was telling Tom as we came in here one of the things that I have

  • said since day one when I became Secretary of State is that in many ways foreign policy

  • today, more than almost at any time in recent memory, foreign policy is economic policy,

  • and economy policy is foreign policy. And we need to really focus in on that - all of

  • us - as we think about the ways in which we're going to grow our economies and provide for

  • this rapidly increasing demand for services and opportunity on a global basis.

  • I think that we've seen this partnership grow in other ways. Right now, Japan and the United

  • States are working together in order to provide emergency assistance in the Philippines because

  • of the devastation from the typhoon. That's the kind of cooperation that redefines security

  • and partnership in the region. And as I said in my remarks at Tokyo Tech when I spoke just

  • last spring, we believe not in some specific set of commandments about how we ought to

  • behave, but rather in a mutual recognition that, as you say in Japan, we are all in this

  • together, otagai-sama. (Laughter.) Not bad. (Applause.)

  • Every one of you comes to these tables tonight and most importantly to this 50-year partnership

  • with an understanding of your own businesses and of this new, more competitive, more voracious,

  • fast-moving economy that we're all working in. And it is the success of your businesses

  • and the strength of the ties between them and the United States and your own countries

  • - Japan or America - that is really the proof of what I'm talking about here tonight. For

  • those of you representing Japanese companies who have invested in the United States, we

  • thank you. We also invite you to do more, to recognize what is happening here in America

  • with respect to our productivity, our competitiveness, and the extraordinary fact that we have suddenly

  • become the number one oil and gas producer in the world and will be energy-independent

  • by the year 2035. It's extraordinary. I can't tell you that it was something that was absolutely,

  • totally planned. It came about because of the extraordinary productivity and innovation

  • of some of our companies, and that innovation is now producing a different future for people

  • all over the world.

  • We also hope that you will recognize that we, I think, are the number one leading nation

  • in the world with respect to foreign direct investment from very, very many places, and

  • now increasingly we are finding ourselves manufacturing competitive with manufacturing

  • coming back as a consequence of a whole bunch of different ingredients that I won't go into

  • tonight.

  • I also want to point out that through the work of a program called SelectUSA, we are

  • working aggressively to reach out to countries to market something that we haven't always

  • done as aggressively in the past but which we think is important in this new dynamic.

  • For those American companies among you who have invested in the Japanese market, likewise

  • we say thank you, because your investments abroad create jobs back here at home and they

  • generate wealth that not only supports our economy but becomes invested and helps to

  • deal with challenges on a global basis.

  • To harness the full strength of our alliance, I would respectfully say to you that we need

  • to actually deepen our economic ties, and we need to unlock the full potential for growth

  • in the Asia Pacific, a fast - remarkably, one of the fastest-growing parts of the world,

  • obviously. I was just in Brunei and Bali for the summits, and I could feel this incredible

  • energy as well as just see the remarkable set of opportunities.

  • But the great catalyst for this effort, we believe, is the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  • We are absolutely convinced that the multilateral free trade agreement under negotiation with

  • some of the world's most vibrant economies represents something good for everybody in

  • the world and it will make a difference by raising standards, opening up markets, and

  • creating, literally, millions of more jobs in our country, in yours, and across the Asian

  • Pacific. This is the future.

  • And with Japan's entry, the TPP markets are going to comprise nearly 40 percent of the

  • world's GPP. You put that together with the TTIP and Europe, and you have the most powerful

  • economic force on this planet, raising the standards of everybody, breaking down barriers,

  • breaking down the sometimes government-placed barriers, and creating a fair playing field

  • which improves everybody's sense of the future, and certainly sends a message to capital about

  • investment, which really is important to the kind of growth that we need in all of our

  • countries.

  • So the TPP is not only going to be a job creator here at home and in Japan and throughout East

  • Asia, but it's going to ensure that the highest standards that we set in our own economies

  • become the standard by which everybody then begins to measure their own judgments about

  • investment and about the marketplace. And that improves the certainty of investment

  • as well as creates a stability from which every single one of us will benefit.

  • We also know that the vitality of our partnership for the future depends on innovation. This

  • has been proven over the last years, ever since World War II. Almost all of the productivity

  • that we saw in our country - I think about 85, 90 percent of it - came through increases

  • in innovation. And the foundation for innovation - none of us dare forget - is people. It's

  • the ability to be able to have people take ideas and take risks and be willing to cross

  • oceans and create the new products and new possibilities of that future.

  • Through our exchange of technology and talent, U.S. and Japanese researchers right now are

  • making historic breakthroughs in creating new - in helping to build the International

  • Space Station, in helping to find cures for cancer and treatments for cancer. And from

  • the tragedy of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, we have actually been able to cooperate and

  • find ways to make great strides in disaster response, recovery, and risk mitigation.

  • But as with any profitable partnership, every single one of you here knows that growth requires

  • investment. And when it comes to the educational exchange, I just want to single out for you

  • we can do better and we need to do better. In recent years, the number of Japanese students

  • studying full-time in the United States for their university degrees has dropped by nearly

  • 60 percent. Meanwhile, the number of U.S. students studying in Japan, while growing

  • steadily, has actually remained relatively low despite the growth. So each of you here

  • can actually engage in proactive ways to help us continue that exchange which is going to

  • be critical to the vitality of our innovation and the growth of this partnership.

  • And it's important because in today's world, whether it's climate change, or the problem

  • and challenge of youth unemployment or global health, every one of these issues transcend

  • borders. They don't belong to any one country. And so the result is we have to find new thinking

  • that brings people together on an international basis willing to cooperate, willing to share

  • the values and share the solutions to these particular problems.

  • I think the reality is that the United States and Japan's ability to create shared prosperity

  • tomorrow rests almost exclusively in what we do to build the stronger ties today. And

  • I invite all of you to find ways for your businesses to create these stronger partnerships

  • and move us forward. As we work to grab ahold of these opportunities in the future, there

  • are some special things we're going to need to pay attention to. Everybody knows about

  • the tensions over islands between Japan and China. We're all very cognizant of still some

  • unfinished business with respect to the Republic of Korea and the need to move to the future

  • and not be held by the past. We also know that North Korea presents a very special challenge

  • to all of us, and one in which our cooperation with China will be as critical as any other

  • single thing that we do, because China above all has the ability to make the greatest difference

  • in the choices that North Korea makes. And we have been having that dialogue very directly,

  • and that policy is moving, and I believe it is the only way ultimately to - the only way

  • that we want to rationally accept to force the denuclearization of the peninsula, which

  • is critical to the non-nuclearization of the entire region.

  • So these are the challenges. They're not small. And because of what so many of you in this

  • room have helped to achieve, I believe we have a chance to turn our potential into the

  • promise of the future and to address each of these. I think we have the opportunity

  • to live up to our generational responsibility to meet these challenges, and I look forward

  • to passing that generational test with you in an effort to make certain that we make

  • wise decisions, that we protect the future, and importantly in that effort, that we continue

  • to build this extraordinary relationship.

  • Thank you for letting me be here to celebrate with you. Thank you.

SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you very much, Ambassador.

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