An essay on Trump’s presidency, markets and exchange rates, postwar Japan’s stagnation, and media responsibility, arguing that the civilizational mission of the United States and Japan is indispensable to humanity.

If America were to forget completely, and Japan were to be entirely controlled by self-denialists, the world itself—that is, humanity—would not exist.
2016-11-15.
As readers know, I have written about Trump, the next President of the United States, in an extremely restrained manner.
The primary reason, as already stated, is that he was a figure highly likely to become the next U.S. president, namely the candidate ultimately selected by the Republican Party.
Regarding his provocative statements, readers also know that I wrote that he instantaneously shattered the lie of the non-nuclear myth that had covered Japan for seventy years after the war, making him rather the greatest trickster of the postwar era.
About ten years ago, when it was already long past the time to write The Turntable of Civilization, yet I still felt compelled to do so, I realized that I had not at all examined the stock market, the very foundation of capitalism.
Thus, I spent several years examining the stock market, and only afterward completed The Turntable of Civilization, as readers are aware.
Accordingly, I asserted matters that no one else at the time had mentioned.
One of them was that an exchange rate of 111 to 112 yen per dollar was the appropriate price between the dollar and the yen, and that merely correcting it would end Japan’s massive stagnation—an utterly unnecessary calamity for the world—which has already become a historical fact as the cause of today’s extremely dangerous and unstable world.
Yet even the fact that this rate was exactly the purchasing power parity calculated by the World Bank went unnoticed by the media and so-called cultural figures of the time, who continued to utter the foolish claim that an excessively strong yen was acceptable, thereby perpetuating Japan’s lost twenty years.
As previously noted, they alone remained unscathed, even increasing their incomes in real terms and continuing to enjoy comfortable lives.
While many of Japan’s truly representative major corporations struggled and suffered, pushing Japanese youth into unimaginable poverty, job scarcity, and difficulties in marriage, these people—who may rightly be called the so-called establishment, a mass of egoism—continued to revel in their own springtime.
They advanced enterprises that further deepened deflation, crushed Japan’s natural opportunity to seize hegemony alongside the United States with the advent of the IT world, reduced Japan’s world-class electronics manufacturers to mere producers of PC boxes, created countless sufferers, and yet themselves rose to become among Japan’s top one or two great asset holders.
Thus, if one were to identify a flaw in the United States—while fully acknowledging the greatness of the American Dream—it would be the issue of a disparity society, yet Japan, once entirely unrelated to this American model, also produced a small number of managers who themselves created a disparity-like society.
That Japan, having miraculously recovered from postwar devastation, and as a nation grounded in its own history and culture, must naturally stand alongside the United States and lead the world for the next 170 years as the turntable of civilization, ordained by divine providence, came to Japan, is beyond question.
That this was in no way the result of those who blocked the progress of this turntable while enriching only themselves is obvious even to a kindergarten child.
It was simply something incomprehensible to the media such as NHK and Asahi and the so-called cultural figures aligned with them.
That some among them have received Nobel Prizes or been nominated is itself undeniably one of the causes that shaped today’s world.
Returning to the main point.
At this point, it is almost convincing that here too—namely, in the acts that halted the progress of the turntable of civilization—there was covert manipulation by the intelligence agencies of Korea and China, that is, the steering of media such as NHK and Asahi and the cultural figures aligned with them.
It would be no exaggeration to say that, immediately before election day, the only ones who believed—contrary to media reports—that the outcome was entirely uncertain were myself and an elderly major asset holder from Osaka with whom I have had a long relationship.
I believed that, just as I did, the American people were also coming to think that newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post could not possibly be correct—that the establishment continued to write biased articles and that they were not necessarily reporting facts—and that it would be strange to think Americans did not feel this.
Or rather, since what I have continued to transmit to the world is not in vain, it would be stranger to think that Americans had not begun to realize that The New York Times and The Washington Post, like Asahi Shimbun, had long continued to write distorted, ignorant, crude, and absurd things, particularly about Japan.
In fact, my words must be reaching far more people than imagined.
That was the sense I had.
What I shared with the aforementioned elderly gentleman was that the result would remain uncertain until revealed, that Trump had a strong chance of winning, and that in such a case the Nikkei Average would likely fall by 1,000 yen in a single day as an instantaneous reaction against the opposite kind of reporting.
However, since the United States is not China—and because there is absolutely no chance that the United States would collapse simply because Trump became president—a massive crash like those triggered by fears of China at the turn of the year would never occur.
That point would represent the bottom, after which prices would rapidly recover.
As I have repeatedly stated, while no one in the world can know what China will be like ten years from now, it is impossible to claim that no one can know what the United States will be like ten years from now.
On the contrary, anyone in the world can know that the United States will still be the United States ten years from now.
(For if the United States were no longer the United States, it would be no exaggeration to say that the world itself had vanished).
(No matter how much Xi Jinping may harbor absurd dictatorial ambitions for world hegemony, the world desires no one-party communist dictatorship—he is merely the naked emperor).
The United States, alongside Japan, is a nation possessing the highest level of intelligence and freedom, and a nation that must lead the world.
Because it was the first nation in human history to drop atomic bombs on human beings, it cannot escape this fate and must eternally remain a world leader by divine providence.
If the United States were to forget this providence even slightly, and the situation in which Japan was controlled by Asahi Shimbun and the like were to revive, and if they were not strengthening Japan but rather being manipulated by countries such as Korea and China.
Then, together with the United Nations dominated by figures like Bokova, raised under one-party communist dictatorship, continuing to belittle and oppress Japan, the world would become as unstable and dangerous as it is now.
If America were to forget completely, and Japan were to be entirely controlled by self-denialists, the world itself—that is, humanity—would not exist.
The time has long since come for media such as Asahi and NHK, the cultural figures aligned with them, and similar people worldwide to know that this is divine providence.
To be continued.