At 14:00 local time, Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan, the host country, announced the opening of the meeting.

当地时间14时许，东道主日本首相菅直人宣布会议开始。

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Shoichiro Toyoda, Chairman of Aichi World Expo delivered a speech in the opening ceremony, noting that China is the most important country for Japan.

日本世界博览协会会长丰田章一郎在开幕式上发表讲话说，对日本而言，中国是最重要的国家。

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Japan hopes this new robotic army could be part of the answer to an ever-declining birthrate and shrinking workforce in a country famously wary of opening its shores to immigrants.

由于持续的低出生率以及国际知名的审慎接收移民政策，日本希望这支新的机器人大军能够部分解决随之而来的劳动力减少的状况。

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Japan has been planning its policy of a third opening of Japan after the Meiji Restoration and the era right after the Pacific war.

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In 1858, the Treaty of Edo was signed which provided for the opening up of Japan to British trade and set up British residency.

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These fights with China, Korea and Russia will make it all worse. 20 years ago when China has only 14 years of opening up, Japan could made amends, paid out of their then rich bubble coffers and made China a new old friend together going forward.

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