The sole lesson Japan should learn from Germany is the strength produced by long-term political stability. This essay argues that short-lived governments and media-driven instability weakened Japan, a reality reflected even in Olympic gold medal counts.

That alone is what it means to say that Japan should learn from Germany.
2016-08-26
To add to the previous chapter, as a result, Japan has long trailed Germany—a country smaller than Japan in both population and GDP—even in the number of gold medals won at the Olympic Games.
The outcome of following the distorted and, in truth, truly childish commentaries and editorials of the editorial writers at Asahi Shimbun—embracing short-lived administrations (even those called “somewhat long” cannot be compared with the long-term administration of Angela Merkel, and compared with the long-term administration of Helmut Kohl the difference is heaven and earth, not even worthy of appearing on the editorial table), and continuing the foolish practice of governing on perpetually fragile foundations—has manifested itself vividly even in the number of Olympic gold medals.
There is a clear difference between a country that has steadily promoted and embedded sports through a long-term perspective and a nationwide system.
And Japan, which has been dominated by media such as Asahi Shimbun, newspapers that have devoted themselves to diminishing and weakening their own country, along with media that have done nothing but engage in empty hype by slapping idiotic labels like “XX Japan.”
In other words, this is precisely the fact that I was the first to point out in Japan.
If one were to speak in such trivial terms, that is.
From that single perspective alone—Merkel is now in her eleventh year (and even though continuation is highly likely, the media raise virtually no voices calling for her resignation), and before her, Kohl served as Germany’s chancellor for sixteen years.
That alone is what it means to say: learn from Germany.