I was born in Fukuoka and moved to the UK at the age of 14.

I became a lawyer when I was 35 years old.

While traveling back and forth between the UK and Japan,

I realized that over the past decade,

Japan’s economy has been falling drastically behind the rest of the world.

I feel a deep sense of urgency about the growing poverty in Japan.

 

What we need right now is the urgent economic action.

Unless we seriously support small and medium-sized businesses and raise the national minimum wage of Japan,

we cannot rebuild the economy or improve people’s lives.

If abolishing the consumption tax is one way to achieve that — to lift up the lives of ordinary people living in Japan and revive the economy — then it must be done immediately.

Think. Who is truly working to rebuild the economy today? Who genuinely cares about the people living in our society in Japan?

 

I want to build a society where no one has to suffer from poverty and no one is left behind.

I want to build a society free from war and free from discrimination — that’s the future I believe in.

   

One step at a time, with you.

   

KOICHIRO YOSHIDA