yikio hatoyama also is your questions on u.s.-japan relations and whether he will reshuffle his cabinet. according to several media reports support what the prime minister andap dropped from 74 % since the august 2010 election. >> [speaking in japanese] >> translator: we will now have a prime minister meeting with the minister yikio hatoyama. i would like to wish all the people of japan a happy new year and offered my heartfelt wishes that this will be a wonderful year for all of you. thanks to you, we were able to realize a once in a century change in administrations. but the reality is i think this point we are no now just standing on the starting line. we sought to create a new kind of politics that are not run by bureaucrats but where the citizens played a leading role. with your support, when u.s. administration is ready to achieve reform on the great ones in a century scale. our efforts have just begun. it has now been just over 100 days since the new administration started. i know that in many ways we have not come up to y