The small country was annexed to its larger neighbor.

A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.

The big nations should not interfere with the smaller nations.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Japanese companies have set up factories on every continent, and Japanese banks help finance many of the world's major economic programs.

Learning lessons from Europe, Japan has to switch its economic-oriented policy to a consumer-conscious one, in order to cope with the coming unprecedented aging society towards the 21st century.