This essay examines the stability that long-term leadership brought to the international order through Angela Merkel’s tenure, and contrasts it with the intellectual decline of Japanese media and cultural figures who failed to grasp its significance.
It reveals the dangers of forces that attempted to obstruct the continuation of Shinzo Abe’s administration, arguing that Japan’s pattern of short-lived governments itself contributed to global instability.
By comparing years in office and policy achievements, this work exposes the contradiction of those who praised Germany while denying Japan’s own long-term leadership, presenting one of the earliest comprehensive critiques of this phenomenon to the world.

This essay examines the stability that long-term leadership by German Chancellor Angela Merkel has brought to the international community, and discusses the intellectual deterioration of Japanese media and cultural figures who are unable to understand its significance.
It also clarifies the relationship between the dangers of forces that have obstructed the long-term continuation of the Abe administration and the destabilization of the world order.

As of the 22nd, Ms. Merkel, having served 11 years in office and being the longest-serving leader among the Group of Seven (G7), demonstrates an outstanding sense of stability on the international stage.
2016-11-23
In recent days, I had come to think that I had made contributions worthy of receiving a decoration from the Japanese state in this matter as well.
As I have repeatedly stated, the Asahi Shimbun–like tendencies that exist throughout the world have created the extremely unstable and dangerous world we now inhabit.
As I have also stated many times, the guilt of those who grew up reading their publications and have moved in step with them is extremely deep.
The Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who have aligned themselves with it have continued to say the laughable phrase “Learn from Germany” (in this matter, Kang Sang-jung has been its representative champion).
Having been endowed by God with the intellect I have spoken of many times, one day I began to transmit powerful messages to the world in rapid succession.
Those with discerning insight must have understood that this completely silenced them.
Had I not transmitted the following essays to the world, by now the Asahi Shimbun, media outlets aligned with it, and the so-called cultural figures would have launched fierce attacks against any extension of Prime Minister Abe’s tenure, crushed it, repeated the pattern of short-lived administrations, weakened Japan’s national power, and driven the world into an increasingly critical state.
Just as I was about to write about this, articles appeared in various newspapers reporting that Merkel had decided to run for a fourth term.
She is now in her eleventh year in office, and the probability of her being re-elected again is high; it is considered certain that she will match the 16-year tenure of Kohl, which I have mentioned before.
In today’s Nikkei newspaper editorial there was the following passage.
(Omitted opening text.)
“As of the 22nd, Ms. Merkel, having served 11 years in office and being the longest-serving leader among the Group of Seven (G7), demonstrates an outstanding sense of stability on the international stage.”
(Omitted remainder.)
Why Merkel is so is something that should be self-evident to anyone with a sound mind—except for those such as the Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who align with it, whose minds are so childish that they fail even to realize that their distorted ideology seeks only to debase Japan.
Even the President of the United States can serve only a maximum of eight years.
It is only natural that major undertakings requiring time, such as the TPP, cannot be accomplished within such limits.
In the following chapters, I will once again transmit to the world several essays that prove that this was indeed an achievement worthy of receiving a decoration from the Japanese state.

While continuing to praise Chancellor Merkel, who led Germany through a long-term administration, the Asahi Shimbun and cultural figures continued to deny Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who in just four years placed the Japanese economy back on a recovery trajectory.
This essay clarifies that contradiction through the factual measures of years in office and policy results.

If one were to replace her with the Liberal Democratic Party, it should instantly become clear how correct my argument is.
What follows is an essay I transmitted to the world on July 9, 2016.
Merkel became leader of the CDU in 2000 and Chancellor of Germany in November 2005.
If one were to replace her with the Liberal Democratic Party, it should instantly become clear how correct my argument is.
Prime Minister Abe began leading the present administration only four years ago, in 2012.
Merkel has continued as Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
In other words, she has served sixteen years as party leader and eleven years as Chancellor.
Of course, the majority of Japanese citizens do not know this fact accurately.
During this period, it goes without saying that she effectively secured Germany’s position as the leader of the EU and significantly strengthened its voice in the international community.
Shinzo Abe has had only four years.
In these mere four years, he implemented economic policies that broke Japan free from more than twenty years of deflation and produced results; it is no exaggeration to call this extraordinary.
Nevertheless, not only have the Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures aligned with it continued to praise Merkel and Germany and to say “Learn from Germany,” they have consistently denied Prime Minister Abe’s entirely correct policies.
Even if German newspapers such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which have received favors from the Asahi Shimbun and aligned themselves with it, criticize Japan from distant Germany and foster anti-Japan sentiment among roughly half of their own citizens, they would not do something as foolish as undermining their own country’s prime minister and forcing him to resign mid-term or ensuring that a long-term administration is never maintained.
Most Japanese hold absolutely no anti-German sentiment.
This is because no one knows anything about Germans.

Those who have continued to chant “Learn from Germany”—the Asahi Shimbun and cultural figures—why have they consistently averted their eyes from the most crucial point: the long-term administrations of Merkel and Kohl?
This essay is the first in the world to clearly demonstrate the abnormality of Japan’s short-lived administrations.

If one says “Learn from Germany,” then it is precisely that point that must be learned; I was the first in the world to make this clear.
(Omitted opening text.)
Among the essays I wrote previously were the following:
“Who was it that kept replacing Japan’s prime ministers like the eyes of a cat during the long years before Abe returned to office?”
“Merkel has served sixteen years as leader of the CDU and twelve years as Chancellor; before her, Kohl served as Chancellor for sixteen years.”
If one says “Learn from Germany,” then it is precisely that point that must be learned; I was the first in the world to make this clear.
These essays of mine pronounced the death notice for Kang Sang-jung and the Asahi Shimbun.
History will eventually prove this.