Published on July 22, 2019.
This essay discusses the extremely close election in Miyagi Prefecture between Jiro Aichi and a female announcer candidate backed by the opposition, criticizing delayed political strategy, the postwar media framework that portrays “power as evil,” and the contradiction of parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party effectively turning a national election into a beauty contest.

July 22, 2019.
Mr. I, you were one month too late in calling me… it would not be an exaggeration to say that the moment you political professionals realized that things were dangerous as they stood, and that this would be a close race, was when the candidate was decided.
Mr. I, you were one month too late in calling me.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the moment you political professionals realized that things were dangerous as they stood, and that this would be a close race, was when the candidate was decided.
After all, even early voting had already begun on July 5.
I wish you had at least called me around July 5.
On last night’s election-results program, I saw for the first time the face of the female announcer candidate backed by the opposition parties, such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party.
She was not merely good-looking; she was a beauty beyond that level… if she was a female announcer whom many people in Miyagi Prefecture already knew and felt favorably toward, then the moment the candidate was decided, the struggle of the rough-looking middle-aged male candidate had already been determined.
On top of that, she is probably a beautiful mother, with several children, working hard at child-rearing as well.
On the other hand, Jiro Aichi was placed in the following structure.
It was not only that the Japanese media is, in reality, dominated by leftist infantile-disease patients, but also that, because of GHQ’s WGIP, even now, 74 years after the war, the media remains brainwashed into believing that “power is evil and the people are right,” and through media reporting, many people have been made to think the same way; in that structure, Jiro Aichi had been pushed onto the side of “power is evil.”
To break this… to break this fiction, one week before voting day was too late.
And yet, 473,534 to 464,662, a difference of only 8,872 votes!
Isn’t it strange that the winner of an important election should be decided by this?
It is strange to call someone the winner entrusted with national politics by such a vote difference.
It is a difference for which a revote would be entirely appropriate.
Or rather, is it not a vote difference in which both candidates should pass?
It would not be wrong at all to say that this is the proper form of democracy; it was an unbelievable close race.
I do think I contributed to bringing it that far, that is, to recovering the disadvantage of Jiro Aichi, the middle-aged man on the side of power.
I have pride in having answered your request for reinforcements and produced an answer in only a few days.
But now I will reveal the proof that I am truly one of the geniuses produced by postwar Japan.
“At this rate, it is a beauty contest… and on top of that, she is an extremely healthy-looking, completely unquirky, bright beauty… with this, an honest, bureaucratic middle-aged man who either has poor articulation or lacks sharp eloquence, and who, judging from his facial features, seems to be a serious, single-minded, endurance-type person, cannot win…”
Human beings prefer looking at beauty rather than ugliness… that is why unattractive women are not used as female announcers… in South Korea, for example, it is laughably all about surgically enhanced beauties.
But wait a moment.
Since when did the people of Miyagi Prefecture, whose prefectural capital is Sendai, the capital of Tohoku and a city of learning, become such fools that they confuse an election with a beauty contest?
If that was the case, they should simply have held a Sendai beauty contest.
Mr. I, that was when the genius had a flash of insight.
As expected, it was Miyagi Prefecture, my homeland… Masamune died and left behind the skin of a tiger.
To begin with, were it not the opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party, together with media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK that sympathized with them, that had abolished even beauty contests one after another, calling them discrimination against women and discrimination against human beings?
Those very opposition parties, in an election that decides the fate of the nation, shamelessly and without regard for appearances, hold a beauty contest.
It is exactly “self-serving pseudo-moralism” itself.
Mr. I.
You were one month too late.
If you had told me one month earlier, then for one month, every day, “The Turntable of Civilization” would have continued informing the people of Miyagi Prefecture of that fact.
It would have made them notice the evil of that “self-serving pseudo-moralism.”
Because I could have made Jiro Aichi win!
For the time being, I am conveying this as it is, in the form of a rough draft.
In the future, when something similar happens in Miyagi Prefecture or Sendai City, please request reinforcements at least one month in advance.
Before that, this time’s historic narrow margin must be made the basis for a revote.
With that result, it cannot be said that one side was elected.
There is no choice but to have both candidates elected.
Either hold a revote, or declare both candidates elected… if one does not realize that this is true democracy, then one cannot possibly be called a political professional.