This essay explains why Japan’s business world has begun to break free from media-driven thinking and face reality directly. It clarifies the deeper meaning of “learning from Germany,” drawing on the leadership of Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel, and Helmut Kohl, and argues for long-term political continuity as a foundation of national strength.

2016-09-23

The fact that I wish to inform Japan and the world of in this chapter is that the business community, too, has begun to break away from the state of having been unconsciously manipulated by the Asahi Shimbun, and has started doing what is only natural for sound intelligence: judging reality by looking straight at facts alone.
For Japan and the world,
this means that signs have begun to appear that the civilization turntable, whose progress had been halted by the Asahi Shimbun and by countries that could be said to have manipulated it, is starting to rotate once again.
Of course, as I have mentioned many times, Prime Minister Abe is a politician who could be said, without exaggeration, to be the greatest in history, a politician who looks squarely at reality, a statesman of rare caliber who has restarted Japan’s progress as a country in which the civilization turntable is turning, a country that must lead the world alongside the United States, and a democratic nation that, together with the United States, has achieved the world’s highest levels of intelligence and freedom.
That Merkel of Germany became leader of the CDU in 2000 and has continued as Germany’s chancellor since 2005, and that her predecessor Kohl continued as chancellor of Germany for sixteen years, created Germany’s current political and economic position in Europe and the world; I am the first person to have strongly and sternly made Japan aware of this fact.
It is a well-known fact that the Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who have aligned with it have long said, “Learn from Germany.”
If they truly learned from Germany, then Prime Minister Abe must be allowed to continue in office for a period equal to or greater than Merkel’s—indeed, twice as long, when one considers Japan’s economic strength and the contributions it has continued to make to the world, including through the United Nations. I am the first person to have informed Japan and the world that this is the true meaning of “learn from Germany.”