Now when we look at other countries like France and Germany they've already built those sorts of protections into their system and I think it is now time and William thinks it's now time that we had similar protection in our law to enable us to be autonomous in those important areas.

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Hashimoto has also found with Noda important areas of agreement, particularly reforming the system of regional administration to create larger, more autonomous regional units that would take over authority from the central government.

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