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Mr Mayor best in. Your excellent season ladies and gentlemen we. Me This is not the first visit of the prime minister to our city and coming in this morning in this crisp cold weather he joined in the man slim and I asked a good many questions and he told me that there were ten thousand Japanese businessman here and I didn't know that and that there were ten thousand American businessman in in Tokyo so it's always a day of great importance in the history of New York when the Prime Minister's plan honors our city and it's met with a visit and at the moment his presence his presence now is of the greatest significance the first speaker of course is the prime minister's host and I now have the privilege of giving you the chief executive of the city of New York the honorable Robert F. Wagner thank you much Mr Pattison prime minister for Ambassador. Stink which party visiting I said today. Prime Ministers a very great privilege for me to Biju a well long Welcome to New York City. I hope the warmth of our esteem for you and for the people of Japan will take some of the Chill out of our winter weather which I hope is bracing enough for you we would like to. Have you feel good about our weather as well as about everything else here the distance from the shores of Japan to New York City is great but across those many miles there are firm bonds of friendship which we are confident have been strengthened by your meetings with President Johnson during the past two days. New York City we have a very special feeling for the Japanese people just a little over a century ago the first commercial treaty between the United States and Japan was negotiated by a New York a Townsend Harris who was the first American minister do Japan and today we are carrying forward a program to promote mutual understanding and mutual assistance between two of the world's great metropolitan areas Tokyo and New York City this city affiliation has made a real impact here as I know it has in Tokyo here are sister city programs have directly involved more than a million New Yorkers but more to come two generations ago the first American president to recognize the need for a brotherhood of nations and peace Woodrow Wilson spoke the simple words friendship is the great cement that will ever hold the world together today especially we recognize the need for international friendship more than ever before and just as the great bells of the temples throughout Japan I should in this promising new year of one nine hundred sixty five we here in America also joined in prayer for a year of peace and progress toward world understanding your visit to the United States reflects the steadily increasing closeness of our two countries. And it is also evidence of your excellence ease own deep concern with the overriding questions of international peace we are proud to have you with us in New York City we look forward to many years of close friendship with you with the city of Tokyo and with the people of Japan that now gives me a great privilege and pleasure to present to you city's Medal of Honor with a hope that you will enjoy your visit to this city of the United Nations and that you will do us the honor of returning here many times in the future and with this the esteem and affection of all of our eight million people of this city to you and at. The time. Right. Now you talk about. You know your. Well. Oh I will get it right after. Remind me when you go will you please be seated if doctors. Ladies and gentlemen I now have a high honor and friendly representing nation states when the world stage. I'm a courageous brave and peaceful country that our friend is actually see the prime minister of Japan. As. 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Mr Mayor ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for the great pleasure have given me and by our warm words of welcome i just more than overcome the wintry cold and for the honor of your gracious present ation just now to me of the New York City medallion of honor though my stay here lasts but one day I am very happy to have been able to stop here even so briefly in the course of my present visit to the United States there is no doubt in anyone's mind that New York City is the economic and cultural center of the United States and now I think everyone is equally aware that your great city is the most important center of the economic and cultural activity of the entire world. We Japanese are particularly cognizant of this fact and I deeply delighted that your capital city of Tokyo has been associated with the city of New York for quite some time now in a most fruitful and active sister city relationship so warmly referred to just now by Mayor Wagner on this occasion of my first visit to the United States as Prime Minister I've had a very frank exchange of views with President Johnson and other leaders of your country and through this exchange I have tried to fortify the very excellent relations with two countries now enjoy the city of New York is a striking example of the vitality of that relationship and being as it is a great American metropolis where nearly ten thousand Japanese reside as has just been mentioned and engaged in trade professions on study and where in addition many business men artists scholars and tourists visit each year from our country Mr May I should like to express the sincere hope in this regard that New York City continues to thrive and prosper and to contribute in her remarkable way through the development of economic and cultural interchange between Japan and the United States. 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