 We're here at the ITU studio in Geneva, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr. Saturo Aseki, who is Director-General for International Affairs for the Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan. Mr. Aseki, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much. I'd like to start off by talking about the ITU telecom events. Japan is a supporter of ITU telecom events over many years, and will be President ITU telecom World 2013. What value do you see in attending such events? ITU telecom is a very important occasion, we think, in the sense that that will bring together the latest development of technologies or many new services around the world. At the same time, it is an ideal occasion for us to interact with the leaders from the government or leaders from the business around the world. So this kind of occasion is very unique. That's why we participate in active manner in ITU telecom meetings. Innovation will be, once again, a major topic at World 2013 in Bangkok this November. What are the key innovations transforming the lives of ordinary people in Japan? I can think about two points. One point is that the open data and the big data, and the open data and the big data is now coming to bring about a new horizon to the ICT innovation and the new services on ICT. At the same time, the next point is that the ICT should bring about the changes in life of the people, as you said. In that sense, ICT should be in every corner of the life or in every corner of the society. That means that the ICT should be utilized in healthcare or e-government or transportation, disaster prevention, and many things. So in that sense, ICT should utilize the already developed infrastructure, broadband. But now the next phase is how to utilize the ICT technologies and the broadband infrastructure. That is our next agenda. So the government of Japan is trying hard to make the change in life utilizing ICT a real one. That is our agenda. And what are the principal regulatory challenges that the industry faces in times of such radical transformation? If we think about the situation in Japan, the most pressing challenge regarding the regulatory issues is the open data and the big data. The personal data utilization is an issue for the industry and also for the individuals. For the industry, they should know the boundary of the utilization of personal data. And without knowing it, the industry could hesitate to utilize personal data with confidence. On the individual side, if they think that the rules or principles of utilization of their personal data is not established enough, they could feel uneasy. So I think that the confidence both on the individuals and industries need to be established regarding the personal data utilization. And if we think about the many countries in the world, predictability is also very important. ICT area is developing very fast. That means for many countries, once decided policies sometimes may be revisited. That means once decided policy could be changed. So that's normal. That kind of things happen also in Japan. But the very important thing regarding that phenomena, predictability is important. So for the industries, without predictability, they could not be ambitious enough to invest or to try another new innovative services. So many countries' governments need to think about the way how to give up predictability, to give confidence to the industries. What in your opinion is the role of government versus private sector in ensuring the rollout of broadband services? I think the key word is competition. So competition will bring about lower prices and innovative services that will end up in the utmost customer satisfaction. So the government should design a good antitrust policy and competition policy so that the industries compete each other with it, the users will benefit from it. And finally I'd like to ask you, what message will you hope to share at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok this year? I think about two words. One word is confidence building. So confidence building among the countries from many regions and from many developed development is very important. Maybe each country will think about many agenda depending on their situation back in their home. However, we can build confidence with sharing our policy experiences or sharing the national circumstances. With it, we can think about the common goal. Another key word is common viewpoint on our future direction. Next place of the telecom world is in Asia. Asia is a very diversified region. It has many countries of developed, different development level. Our situation is also different in Asia. So Asia is ideal place to think about different agenda depending on the national circumstances. But Asia is a place we can think about the common agenda or common direction. That will be a good insights for the countries from other regions as well. Mr. Seki, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.