I strongly believe that this article, above all others, must be republished now.
Not only now.
It should be published tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, indeed every single day.
For this is not merely an argument about an election.
It is a clarion call that confronts us with the historical reality that each and every Japanese person’s single vote can change Japan and change the world.
The deception of the old media that has covered postwar Japan, the errors of the bureaucracy, and the silence of the people.
Now is the time to bring down upon them the most peaceful and yet strongest hammer blow: a single vote.
This essay is the great voice of Nobunaga, sent by The Turntable of Civilization to every Japanese voter aged 18 and above.
Now is the time for it to be read again.

2026-01-30
There are moments when a single vote changes the world.
A postwar record-level voter turnout and Prime Minister Takaichi’s overwhelming victory will restart the current of civilization led by Japan and the United States.
This is a call to action thrust before all of us living in the present.
It is a clarion call from “the Nobunaga living in our time,” one that will remain in world history.
It is a call even more important than the line Dostoevsky speaks through The Brothers Karamazov: that if every father were a good father to his child, the problems of mankind would be solved.

The total volume regulation was administrative guidance issued by the then Ministry of Finance to financial institutions on March 27, 1990, under the Second Kaifu Cabinet.
As I have stated many times, this was the beginning of Japan’s deflation, which still continues today, and whose final end has not yet been written.
I have also repeatedly stated that the mistaken policy was brought about by the Asahi Shimbun, which at that time effectively ruled Japan, and by one employee of its economics department, Atsushi Yamada.
It is also an undeniable fact that my argument struck the mark.
At that time, as a businessman running a real-estate company, I was about to enter the prime of my career.
The company was in a condition where it could have been registered over the counter almost immediately.
Because I was in a fierce rivalry with a major real-estate company with which I also had close ties, I had acquired an exceptionally good commercial site in Tokyo.
It was such a site that a close friend of mine, an employee of Tokyo Dentsu, earnestly asked me to let Dentsu create the business plan.
It took far longer than we had expected, but several splendid business plans were completed according to our company’s project.
The total project cost was 6.5 billion yen.
Every proposal was such an excellent project that full financing could have been obtained from life-insurance companies.
Dentsu’s only condition was this: “Please leave all tenant recruitment to Dentsu.”
It was at that very moment.
That was when the total volume regulation began.
Against the financing we had received from Sumitomo Bank, our main bank at the time of the land acquisition, Fuji Bank, which was competing with Sumitomo for the No. 1 position in sales in Japan, repeatedly approached us day after day with an extremely favorable offer: the entire amount plus three years’ worth of interest.
At first Sumitomo opposed the refinancing, but eventually admitted that even Sumitomo could not decide on such favorable conditions, and agreed to the refinancing.
That was how excellent the project was.
What made the timing even worse for our company was that, just as the total volume regulation began, the president of Fuji Bank had just become chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association.
Do not lend money to the construction industry.
Do not lend money to the real-estate industry.
That was the total volume regulation mentioned above.
As I have already written, in response to this extremely foolish administrative guidance, I resolved to spend 35 million yen to place a full-page opinion advertisement in the national edition of the Nikkei newspaper, under the title: “Dear Minister of Finance and Governor of the Bank of Japan.”
Nikkei would not give me the space.
Nikkei was not a newspaper that would accept an opinion advertisement addressed to the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan from an unknown individual and an unknown real-estate company.
At this rate, the company would collapse.
Then the only option was to form a fund and raise the nearly 2 billion yen needed for construction.
However, at the time, the maximum number of participants in a fund was set at 50.
With that limit, the amount per person would be far too high, making it virtually impossible.
So I called the Ministry of Finance.
Those days were different from today’s desolate environment in which companies and government offices exist.
After all, today even nameless small and medium-sized companies seem to be shut away behind locked doors.
Back then, one could telephone anywhere normally.
I told the person who answered to connect me with the section chief in charge, a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law.
The person who came on the line without a moment’s delay was Satsuki Katayama, the current Minister of Finance.
As my readers know, I have often said that first-rate people know first-rate people, and geniuses know geniuses.
After our conversation had flowed pleasantly for a while, I raised the main point.
Since financing from financial institutions had been stopped, the only way was to form a fund, but the membership limit was too small.
I said that collecting money was the work of the authorities, but that perhaps around 50 people would not amount to rebellion against the authorities; perhaps the number had been modeled on the story of the Ako Roshi, who were also about 50 in number.
To this, she laughed heartily and said that it might not be entirely off the mark.
It was a truly enjoyable conversation.
Regarding my criticism of the media, she immediately and clearly agreed with me.
Not long afterward, an article appeared reporting that she had announced at a press conference that the membership limit for funds would be expanded from 50 to 100.
The world is now beginning to recognize her truly first-rate intellect and decisiveness.
Everything begins with one person.
The Asahi Shimbun does not speak.
The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan do not speak as names or buildings.
Someone, one individual, begins things.
Late last night, on YouTube, I watched a video of her giving a speech in Suginami Ward in support of Hiroko Kado.
I was deeply impressed by her unchanged clarity, by Hiroko Kado’s clarity, and by the fact that both women are truly capable people possessed of real courage.
Hiroko Kado is a brilliant woman who obtained a New York State attorney qualification while studying abroad at public expense from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
As I have previously written, I also thought instantly of my old classmate D, whom I had happened to meet again on the platform at Yodoyabashi.
At the time, he belonged to the legal department of a major trading company.
He was transferred to New York.
At that time, I decided to lease his home as company housing to a certain major corporation.
While working in New York, he obtained a New York State attorney qualification.
Later he left the company and became a lawyer in New York.
Then, late one night in Kitashinchi, I ran into him again.
I have already written about that sequence of events.
I also instantly recalled the late Kiichi Aichi, a great senior from my eternally beloved alma mater.
When I was a student, he came to the school twice and gave speeches.
He was Minister of Education and Foreign Minister at those times.
When this extremely capable and excellent politician died young, Kakuei Tanaka lamented, “A giant star has fallen.”
The moment Sanae Takaichi, a genuine patriot and a truly refined person, not a political operator who, to put it bluntly, is incompetent like Kishida or Ishiba, became president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the true Liberal Democratic Party came back to life.
In other words, the flow has returned in which Japan’s most excellent people work for the country and therefore stand as candidates from the Liberal Democratic Party.
Anyone who thinks this is false need only listen to the speeches of Katayama and Kado; it will be obvious at once.
To all voters throughout Japan aged 18 and above: as soon as you finish reading this essay, go immediately to early voting.
As Takashi Kadota actually confirmed yesterday when he voted, neither a voting ticket nor identification is required, though identification is preferable if available.
It is enough for you, as a voter, to write your address and the other required information.
As Kadota reported, he finished voting in about five minutes.
You do not need a voting ticket.
As a voter, you need only go in person to your nearest early-voting station.
In Osaka’s 5th district, that is the nearest ward office.
Throughout Japan, early-voting stations are ward offices, city halls, town halls, and village offices.
To all voters throughout Japan aged 18 and above: as soon as you finish reading this essay, go immediately to early voting.
This election is not merely an election to give Prime Minister Takaichi a major victory.
Among advanced nations where elections are conducted fairly, Japan must achieve a voter turnout without precedent in the postwar world.
The minimum target for voter turnout is 70 percent.
Let us achieve more than 80 percent.
And let us deliver the greatest landslide victory in the postwar political history of advanced nations.
This is the election that will give the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi an overwhelming landslide victory that will astonish the world.
The respect of every nation in the world will gather around Prime Minister Takaichi.
It will gather around the Takaichi administration.
This is the election that will make Japan bloom at the center of the world.
This election points to that unique, unprecedented, greatest event in history.
All of you, all of us, each and every voter aged 18 and above, must go to the polling place now and make Japan bloom at the center of the world.
This is an election that can restore Japan.
It is an election to return Japan, the country where The Turntable of Civilization turns in accordance with divine providence alongside the United States, to its position as a world leader alongside the United States for at least another 170 years.
As one of the people living in the 21st century, you must vote for the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi for the sake of Japan and for the sake of the world, and fulfill your duty to save mankind as a citizen of the nation where The Turntable of Civilization turns according to divine providence.
This is the election that will show the world the highest postwar voter turnout among advanced nations and the greatest landslide victory in history for the administration led by Prime Minister Takaichi.
At that moment, a hammer blow will fall upon the foolish, cowardly, and utterly malicious old media, and upon the United Nations, which has become not only foolish but also the agent of China, the worst dictatorship in history, where the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
It will be an election that delivers judgment upon their countless past evils.
An election that announces their end.
It will be an election that delivers a hammer blow to China, the worst dictatorship in history, where the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
All voters aged 18 and above, including high-school students:
As soon as you read this essay, go immediately to your nearest ward office, city hall, prefectural office, or town hall and vote early.
You do not need a voting ticket or identification, though identification is preferable if available; students may bring a student ID.
You need only go in person.
Go immediately.
Change the world immediately.
Such an opportunity will never come again.
It is a chance to change not only Japan but the world with a single vote.
It is no exaggeration to call it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The reason, first and foremost, is that Prime Minister Takaichi is a genuine patriot and a truly refined person.
Under the Liberal Democratic Party that she leads, genuine patriots and truly refined people from all over Japan are beginning to gather.
Hiroko Kado, Mio Sugita, Chisato Morishita, and Katsuyuki Watanabe of Miyagi’s 2nd district, who is a graduate of Sendai First High School, the rival school of my own alma mater.
There is no doubt that he is an excellent person.
All across Japan, similar genuine patriots and truly refined people are now gathering under Sanae Takaichi.

This essay is the “great voice” of Nobunaga, sent by The Turntable of Civilization to every Japanese voter aged 18 and above.
A once-in-a-lifetime moment to command the world has arrived.
The advantage of time, the advantage of place, and the advantage of heaven are with us, the Japanese people.
Now, go.
All of you, head to your nearest polling place.

Simply write the name of the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in your district in box ①, and “Liberal Democratic Party” in box ②, and Japan will become a world leader alongside the United States.
Now, to battle.
As true people of the 21st century, show the world the greatest landslide victory in history.
Show the world the intelligence of the Japanese people, the courage of the Japanese people, the backbone of the Japanese people, and true refinement.
To be continued.