There are moments when a single vote changes the world.
I presented this recent election in Japan to the world as precisely such a moment.

This was not merely one phase of domestic politics.
It was a historical turning point concerning the very course of civilization itself.

And I defined it as
the moment when the Turntable of Civilization resumes its advance.

This perspective was one that
existing political commentary,
no commentator,
no intellectual authority of any kind,
was able to present at the time.

Yet I was convinced
that this alone constituted the essence of the matter,
and I transmitted it to the world.

At that time, the possibility of a victory on a historic scale was already extremely high.
But what was required was not a mere victory.
What was demanded was a decisive and emblematic triumph—one that would be inscribed into the political history of the postwar era.

That such an overwhelming victory could be realized was due solely to the unmistakable presence of a leader in whom intellect, judgment, and character—qualities worthy of entrusting a nation—were united as one and firmly established.

This fact cannot be overstated, no matter how strongly it is emphasized.

It restored to postwar Japan
the capacity to determine its national course,
a capacity long lost.
Moreover,
it was an election that returned
the civilizational order centered on Japan and the United States
to its proper course once again.

I state this without hesitation.

This vote
was not merely a vote.

It was a vote
that would rightly alter the course of world political history.

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An Election as a Turning Point in History

In world political history,
true turning points
do not occur only through massive wars or revolutions.

At times,
a quiet act of voting
determines the direction of civilization.

This recent election in Japan
was precisely such a case.

For many years,
Japanese politics had repeated short-lived administrations
and was unable to demonstrate to the world
a sustained national will.

This was not merely a domestic matter.

If a nation lacks stability,
the direction of civilization cannot be stable.

If the will of a nation does not endure,
the international order cannot endure.

In this sense,
this election was a turning point
not only for Japan
but for the world.

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History Begins with One Individual

For many years,
I have held a single conviction.

History does not begin with the many.

It always begins
with one individual.

It is not the state that speaks.
It is not institutions that speak.
It is not the media that speaks.

Always,
someone—one person—
initiates events.

And that will
eventually moves society as a whole.

In this election as well,
that principle did not change.

Votes accumulated.
Those votes became will.
That will became the course of the nation.

That chain of events
once again set civilization’s advance in motion.

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A Manifesto as a Civilizational Alarm

Before this election,
I repeatedly declared:

This vote
is not merely a vote.

It is a vote
that moves the history of civilization.

At that time,
this recognition existed in none
of the mainstream discourses.

Yet I received it
as something akin to a revelation
and transmitted it.

As a result,
many people
reconsidered the meaning of voting.

This was not merely a political appeal.

It was a warning
to the course of civilization,
a catalyst,
and a declaration to history.

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The Turntable of Civilization

For many years,
as a concept to explain the modern world,
I have used the term
“the Turntable of Civilization.”

Civilization can stagnate.
It can move in the wrong direction.

Yet
when the proper catalyst is given,
it resumes its advance once more.

This election
was precisely such a catalyst.

I record here,
with clarity:

The Turntable of Civilization
resumed its advance
at this very moment.

This was not accidental.
It was inevitable.

An inevitability of history.

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A Declaration for the Future

From this point forward,
the meaning of this event
will become ever clearer.

When the course of the nation stabilizes,
when the direction of civilization is set,
and when the order of the world begins once more to take shape,
people will look back.

They will say:

That election
was the turning point.

And they will understand.

That a single vote
moved the world.

I leave this text
as a record of civilization.

And I declare:

The Turntable of Civilization
has now resumed
its advance once again.

This recent election in Japan was not merely a domestic political event.
It was a historical turning point that determined the course of civilization itself—a moment in which a single vote moved the nation, and the nation moved civilization.
This text stands as a world-presented thesis recording the moment when the civilizational order centered on Japan and the United States resumed its advance, in the midst of a civilizational confrontation with the worst forms of authoritarianism in human history.