February 6, 2026
An election to show the world Japanese intelligence, Japanese courage, Japanese fortitude, and true “refinement.”
Go to the polling station immediately.
Change the world immediately.
Because an opportunity like this will never come again.
This is a chance to change not only Japan but the world with a single vote.
It is no exaggeration to call this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
This election is a historic choice placed before every voter aged 18 and over, including the younger generation.
By achieving an overwhelming victory for Prime Minister Takaichi, we will begin turning “The Turntable of Civilization,” in which Japan and the United States lead the world, toward the next era.
The greatest landslide victory in the postwar political history of the advanced nations.
This is an election to give the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi the greatest landslide victory in history, one that will astonish the world.
The respect of every country throughout the world will gather around Prime Minister Takaichi.
It will gather around the Takaichi administration.
This is an election to make Japan blossom at the center of the world.
This article is Nobunaga’s “mighty cry,” presented by “The Turntable of Civilization” to every Japanese voter aged 18 and over.
The once-in-a-lifetime moment to prevail over the world has arrived.
The advantage of time, the advantage of place, and the advantage of heaven are with us, the Japanese people.
Now is the time. Go.
Every one of you, head for your nearest polling station.
This is a manifesto of “Nobunaga living in the present,” one that will remain in world history.
It is an important manifesto comparable even to those words Dostoevsky spoke in The Brothers Karamazov: “If every father were a good father to his children, the problems of mankind would be solved.”
The quantitative restriction, or soryo kisei, was administrative guidance issued by the Ministry of Finance to financial institutions on March 27, 1990, during the Second Kaifu Cabinet.
As I have repeatedly stated, this marked the beginning of Japan’s deflation, which continues even today.
And I have also repeatedly stated that the person who caused this mistaken policy to be implemented was Atsushi Yamada, an employee of the economic news department of the Asahi Shimbun, which at that time dominated Japan.
It is also an obvious fact that my argument was exactly on the mark.
At the time, I was a businessman running a real-estate company and was approaching the peak of my career.
We were in a position to register our shares over the counter almost immediately.
Because we had an intense rivalry while maintaining close relations with a major real-estate company, we had acquired an exceptionally good commercial property in Tokyo.
It was the kind of property for which an employee of Dentsu Tokyo, who was a close friend of mine, strongly urged me to let Dentsu prepare the business plan.
It took considerably longer than we had expected, but several excellent business plans were completed in accordance with our company’s plan.
The total project cost was 6.5 billion yen.
Every proposal was such an excellent project that we could obtain full financing from a life insurance company.
Dentsu had only one condition: “Please leave all tenant recruitment to Dentsu.”
That was when it happened.
The quantitative restriction mentioned at the beginning was introduced.
Regarding the loan we had received from Sumitomo Bank, our main bank, when we acquired the land, Fuji Bank, which at the time was competing with Sumitomo for the number-one position in sales in Japan, repeatedly asked us, day after day, to refinance the loan under favorable terms consisting of the entire amount plus three years’ worth of interest.
Sumitomo initially opposed it, but eventually agreed to the refinancing, saying, “Even our bank cannot authorize terms this favorable.”
That was how outstanding the project was.
What made the timing even worse for our company was that, just when the quantitative restriction began, the president of Fuji Bank had only just assumed the chairmanship of the Japanese Bankers Association.
Do not lend money to the construction industry.
Do not lend money to the real-estate industry.
That was the quantitative restriction referred to at the beginning.
As I have written before, in response to this utterly foolish administrative guidance, I decided to spend 35 million yen to place a full-page nationwide opinion advertisement in the Nikkei newspaper titled, “Dear Minister of Finance and Governor of the Bank of Japan.”
But Nikkei would not give me the space.
Nikkei was not a newspaper willing to allow an unknown individual, a single real-estate company, to place an opinion advertisement addressed to the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan.
At this rate, the company would collapse.
If that was the case, the only option was to create a fund and raise the slightly less than 2 billion yen needed for construction.
However, at that time, the maximum number of participants in a fund was set at 50.
That would make the amount per person too high and would make it nearly impossible.
So I called the Ministry of Finance.
In those days, unlike today’s bleak environment in corporations and government offices, you could normally telephone almost anywhere.
Today is an era in which even unknown small and medium-sized companies seem to be locked away inside sealed rooms.
I told the person who answered the phone, “Please put me through to the section chief in charge who graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo.”
The person who came on the line without a moment’s delay was Satsuki Katayama, now Minister of Finance.
As readers know, I have repeatedly said that the first-rate recognize the first-rate, and geniuses recognize geniuses.
After we enjoyed a lively conversation for a while, I raised the main subject.
Since financing from financial institutions had been stopped, there was no choice but to form a fund, but the permitted number of participants was too small.
I said that perhaps the idea was that collecting money was the government’s business, but around 50 people would not constitute a rebellion against the authorities; after all, there were about 50 Forty-Seven Ronin, and perhaps the rule had followed that precedent.
When I said that, she burst out laughing and said that perhaps I was not entirely wide of the mark.
It was a truly enjoyable conversation.
Regarding my criticism of the media, she also immediately and clearly agreed with me.
It was not long after that.
An article appeared reporting that she had announced at a press conference that the maximum number of participants in a fund would be expanded from 50 to 100.
The world is now beginning to recognize her intelligence and decisiveness as a truly first-rate person.
Everything begins with one person.
The Asahi Shimbun does not speak.
The Ministry of Finance does not speak.
The Bank of Japan does not speak.
Names and buildings do not speak.
One person begins something.
Late last night, on YouTube, I watched footage of her giving a speech in Suginami Ward in support of Hiroko Kado.
Her customary clarity.
Hiroko Kado’s clarity.
I was deeply impressed that both women are outstanding people possessed of genuine fortitude.
Hiroko Kado is the very embodiment of a talented woman who obtained qualification as an attorney in the State of New York while studying abroad at public expense from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
As I have written before, I also thought she was just like my classmate D, whom I happened to meet again on the platform at Yodoyabashi Station.
At the time, he belonged to the legal department of a major trading company.
When he was transferred to New York, I arranged for his house to be rented by a major corporation as company housing.
While working in New York, he obtained qualification as an attorney in the State of New York, later left the company, and practiced law in New York.
Then, on another occasion, I happened to run into him again late at night in Kitashinchi.
I have already written about that sequence of events.
I instantly recalled the late Kiichi Aichi, a great senior from my eternally beloved alma mater.
He visited the school twice while I was a student there and addressed us.
He was Minister of Education on one occasion and Foreign Minister on the other.
When this extremely capable and outstanding politician died prematurely, Kakuei Tanaka lamented, “A great star has fallen.”
The moment Sanae Takaichi, a genuine patriot and a person of true refinement—not an incompetent political operator like Kishida or Ishiba, to put it in the strongest terms—became President of the Liberal Democratic Party, the original Liberal Democratic Party came back to life.
In other words, Japan’s most outstanding people work for the country.
For that purpose, they run for office from the Liberal Democratic Party.
That current has returned.
Anyone who thinks this is untrue need only listen once to the speeches of Katayama and Kado, and it will be immediately clear.
Voters throughout Japan aged 18 and over.
As soon as you finish reading this article, go immediately to cast an early vote.
Even if your voting certificate has not arrived, you can vote early by following the prescribed procedures.
It is better to have identification if possible.
If you are a student, you can bring your student ID or similar identification.
You, as an eligible voter, need only fill in the prescribed information such as your address.
As Takamasa Kadota reported, he completed his voting in about five minutes.
Even if you do not have your voting certificate with you, as an eligible voter you need only go in person to your nearest early-voting location.
In Osaka’s 5th District, that means the nearest ward office.
Anywhere in Japan, early-voting locations are at ward offices, city halls, town offices, and similar places.
Voters throughout Japan aged 18 and over.
As soon as you finish reading this article, go immediately to cast an early vote.
This election is not simply an election to give Prime Minister Takaichi a major victory.
Among advanced countries in which elections are conducted fairly, this must be an election that achieves an unprecedentedly high turnout in the postwar world.
The minimum target for turnout is 70 percent.
Let us achieve more than 80 percent.
And let us achieve the greatest landslide victory in the postwar political history of the advanced nations.
This is an election to give the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi the greatest landslide victory in history, one that will astonish the world.
The respect of every country throughout the world will gather around Prime Minister Takaichi.
It will gather around the Takaichi administration.
This is an election to make Japan blossom at the center of the world.
This election is the occasion to show the world that unique event, the greatest event in history.
You, we, every single one of us who are eligible voters aged 18 and over, should go to the polling station immediately and make Japan blossom at the center of the world.
An election that can restore Japan.
It is an election to return Japan, a country in which “The Turntable of Civilization” turns by divine providence alongside the United States, to its position as a world leader alongside the United States for at least another 170 years.
As one of the people living in the 21st century, for the sake of Japan and the world, you must vote for the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi and fulfill your duty to save humanity as a citizen of a country in which the Turntable of Civilization turns by divine providence.
An election to achieve the highest voter turnout in the postwar history of the advanced nations and show the world the greatest landslide victory in history for the administration led by Prime Minister Takaichi.
At that moment, it will become an election that brings down the hammer on the foolish, cowardly, and utterly malicious old media, and on the United Nations, which has become an agent of China—the worst dictatorship in history, a country that combines not only stupidity but also “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” with the evil of one-party Communist rule.
It will be an election that declares the end of their countless evil deeds.
It will be an election that brings down the hammer on China, the worst dictatorship in history, a country that combines “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” with the evil of one-party Communist rule.
All eligible voters aged 18 and over, including high-school students.
As soon as you read this article, go to your nearest ward office, city hall, prefectural office, town office, or other early-voting location.
Even if you do not have a voting certificate, you need only follow the prescribed procedures.
If you have identification, bring it with you.
If you are a student, bring your student ID or similar identification.
Go immediately.
Change the world immediately.
Because an opportunity like this will never come again.
This is a chance to change not only Japan but the world with a single vote.
It is no exaggeration to call this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
That is, first and foremost, because Prime Minister Takaichi is a genuine patriot and a person of true refinement.
Genuine patriots and people of true refinement from throughout Japan are beginning to gather around the Liberal Democratic Party she leads.
Hiroko Kado, Mio Sugita, Chisato Morishita.
Katsuyuki Watanabe of Miyagi’s 2nd District graduated from Sendai Daiichi High School, the rival school of my alma mater.
There is no doubt that he is an outstanding person.
Throughout Japan, genuine patriots and people of true refinement of the same kind are now gathering under Sanae Takaichi.
This article is Nobunaga’s “mighty cry,” presented by “The Turntable of Civilization” to every Japanese voter aged 18 and over.
The once-in-a-lifetime moment to prevail over the world has arrived.
The advantage of time, the advantage of place, and the advantage of heaven are with us, the Japanese people.
Now is the time.
Go.
Every one of you, head for your nearest polling station.
In ①, write the name of the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in your district.
In ②, write the Liberal Democratic Party.
By doing only that, Japan will become a world leader alongside the United States.
Now, to battle.
As true people of the 21st century, show the world the greatest landslide victory in history.
Show the world Japanese intelligence, Japanese courage, Japanese fortitude, and true “refinement.”
To be continued.