A Tomorrow for Japan, a Tomorrow for the World — A Historic Election to Choose the “Turntable of Civilization” in Which Japan and the United States Lead the World
The election is an election to bring down the hammer on the utterly foolish, cowardly, and vicious old media, the United Nations, and China, the worst dictatorship in history.
It is an election to restore Japan—a country in which, alongside the United States, the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning as an act of divine providence—to its place alongside the United States as a leader of the world for at least another 170 years.
As one of the human beings living in the 21st century, for the sake of Japan and for the sake of the world, you must vote for the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi and, as a citizen of a country in which the Turntable of Civilization is turning as an act of divine providence, fulfill your duty to save humanity.
An election to achieve the highest voter turnout among the advanced nations since the war and to show the world the greatest landslide victory in history for the government led by Prime Minister Takaichi.
At that moment, the utterly foolish, cowardly, and vicious old media, and the United Nations, which in reality is not merely foolish but has become an agent of China—the worst dictatorship in history, in which the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies”…
An election to bring down the hammer on the countless evil deeds they have committed until now.
An election to announce their end.
An election to bring down the hammer on China, the worst dictatorship in history, where the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
An Election to Show the World the Intelligence, Courage, Fortitude, and True “Refinement” of the Japanese People
Go to the polling station immediately. Change the world immediately. An opportunity like this will never come again. With just one vote, you have the chance to change not only Japan but the world. It is no exaggeration to call this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The greatest landslide victory in the political history of the advanced nations since the war. 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.
Everyone 18 and Over, Take the Field — With Prime Minister Takaichi’s Landslide Victory, Choose with Our Own Hands the “Turntable of Civilization” in Which Japan and the United States Lead the World
This election is a historic choice placed before every eligible voter aged 18 and over, including the younger generations.
By achieving a landslide 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.
A clarion call urging action in order to choose the future.
This essay is Nobunaga’s “great voice,” presented by “The Turntable of Civilization” to every eligible voter in Japan aged 18 and over.
The once-in-a-lifetime moment to prevail in the world has arrived. The advantage of time, the advantage of place, and the advantage of Heaven are upon us, the Japanese people. Now, go. Let every one of you head for your nearest polling station.
This is a historic clarion call from a “Nobunaga living in the present.”
It is a clarion call of even greater importance than the line Dostoevsky expressed in The Brothers Karamazov: “If every father were a good father to his child, the problems of humanity would be solved.”
The “total volume regulation” was administrative guidance issued by the then Ministry of Finance to financial institutions on March 27, 1990, during the Second Kaifu Cabinet. (Wikipedia)
As I have repeatedly pointed out, this was the beginning of the deflation in Japan that continues even now—the final full stop has still not been placed on it—and it was Atsushi Yamada, a single employee in the economic department of the Asahi Shimbun, which at the time dominated Japan, who caused this mistaken policy to be implemented.
It is also an indisputable fact that my argument on this subject hit the mark.
At the time, I was approaching the peak of my career as a businessman running a real estate company.
We were in a position where an over-the-counter listing could have been carried out immediately.
Because we were in an intense rivalry with a major real estate company with which we had close relations, we had acquired an extremely good commercial property in Tokyo.
It was such a property that a close friend of mine who worked at Dentsu in Tokyo passionately asked me to let Dentsu produce the business plan.
It took considerably longer than we had expected, but several excellent business plans were eventually completed in accordance with our plans.
The total project cost was 6.5 billion yen.
Every one of the plans was such a high-quality project that we could have obtained full financing from life insurance companies.
Dentsu had only one condition: “We want you to leave all tenant recruitment to Dentsu.”
It was at precisely that moment.
That the total volume regulation mentioned at the beginning began.
With regard to the financing 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 Japan in sales, repeatedly approached us day after day with an offer to refinance the entire amount plus three years’ worth of interest.
Sumitomo initially opposed it, but eventually agreed to the refinancing, saying that even their own bank could not approve terms this favorable.
That is how good the project was.
What made the timing even worse for our company was that, just as the total volume regulation began, the president of Fuji Bank had only just become chairman 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 total volume regulation mentioned at the beginning.
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 Nihon Keizai Shimbun under the title, “Dear Minister of Finance and Governor of the Bank of Japan,” as I have already described.
Nikkei would not give me the space.
Nikkei was not a newspaper capable of accepting an opinion advertisement addressed to the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan from one unknown individual and one unknown real estate company.
At this rate, the company would collapse.
If that was the case, there was no alternative but to form a fund and raise the nearly 2 billion yen needed for construction.
However, at that time, a fund was limited to 50 participants.
That would make the amount required from each individual far too large and make the plan almost impossible.
So I telephoned the Ministry of Finance.
Those were days very different from today’s harsh corporate and governmental environment.
After all, today we live in an age when even unknown small and medium-sized companies seem to be locked away inside sealed rooms.
Back then, you could simply telephone almost anywhere.
I told the person who answered the phone, “Please put me through to the section chief in charge who graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law.”
The person who came on the line without a moment’s delay was Satsuki Katayama, the current Minister of Finance.
As readers know, I have repeatedly written that the first-rate recognize the first-rate, and geniuses recognize geniuses.
After we had 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 far too small.
I said that perhaps raising money was supposed to be the domain of the authorities, and that perhaps around 50 people would not amount to rebellion against the authorities—the Forty-seven Ronin had numbered roughly 50, so perhaps the rule had followed that precedent.
She burst out laughing and said that perhaps I was not entirely off the mark.
It was an enormously enjoyable conversation.
When I spoke about my criticism of the media, she immediately and unequivocally agreed with me.
It was not long after that.
An article appeared reporting that she had announced at a press conference that the permitted number of participants in a fund would be increased from 50 to 100.
The world is now beginning to recognize her intelligence and decisiveness as someone genuinely first-rate.
Everything begins with one person.
The Asahi Shimbun itself does not speak.
The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan do not speak; names and buildings do not speak.
One individual begins something.
Late last night on YouTube, I watched footage of her giving a speech in Suginami Ward in support of Hiroko Kado.
I was deeply impressed by her unchanged clarity, by Hiroko Kado’s clarity, and by the fact that both women are genuinely outstanding people with true fortitude.
Hiroko Kado is the very embodiment of a brilliant woman who obtained qualification as an attorney in New York State while studying abroad at public expense from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
As I have written before, I also thought that she was just like my former classmate D, whom I happened to meet again on the platform at Yodoyabashi.
At the time, he belonged to the legal department of a major trading company.
He was transferred to New York.
At that time, I arranged for a certain major corporation to rent his house as company housing.
While working in New York, he obtained qualification as an attorney in New York State.
Later he left the company and practiced law in New York.
And 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.
At that moment I also immediately thought of the late Kiichi Aichi, a great senior of my beloved alma mater, which I will love forever.
While I was a student, he came to the school twice and addressed us.
He was Minister of Education on one occasion and Minister for Foreign Affairs on the other.
When that extraordinarily 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, unlike political operators such as Kishida and Ishiba who, to put it in the strongest terms, were incompetent—became president of the Liberal Democratic Party, the original LDP came back to life.
In other words, the flow has returned in which Japan’s most outstanding people work for the country and, for that purpose, run for office from the Liberal Democratic Party.
Anyone who thinks this is false need only listen once to the speeches by Katayama and Kado, and it will immediately become clear.
Eligible voters throughout Japan aged 18 and over: when you finish reading this essay, go immediately and cast an early vote.
As Takashi Kadota personally confirmed and did yesterday, neither a voting ticket nor identification is required—although identification is useful to have.
As an eligible voter, all you need to do is write your address and the other required information.
As Mr. Kadota reported, he finished voting in about five minutes.
You do not even need a voting ticket.
As an eligible voter, you need only go, just as you are, to your nearest early-voting station.
In Osaka’s 5th district, that means the nearest ward office.
Throughout Japan, early-voting stations are located at ward offices, city halls, town offices, and similar public offices.
Eligible voters throughout Japan aged 18 and over: when you finish reading this essay, go immediately and cast an early vote.
This election is not merely an election to give Prime Minister Takaichi a great victory.
Among the advanced countries in which elections are conducted fairly, Japan must achieve a voter turnout unprecedented in the postwar world.
The minimum target for turnout is 70 percent.
Let us achieve more than 80 percent.
And then, the greatest landslide victory in the political history of the advanced nations since the war.
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 one that will show the world that unique event, the greatest event in history.
You and we, every single eligible voter aged 18 and over, must go to the polling station right now and make Japan blossom at the center of the world.
An election that can restore Japan to what it was.
It is an election to restore Japan—a country in which, alongside the United States, the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning as an act of divine providence—to its place alongside the United States as a leader of the world for at least another 170 years.
As one of the human beings living in the 21st century, for the sake of Japan and for the sake of the world, you must vote for the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Takaichi and, as a citizen of a country in which the Turntable of Civilization is turning as an act of divine providence, fulfill your duty to save humanity.
An election to achieve the highest voter turnout among the advanced nations since the war and to show the world the greatest landslide victory in history for the government led by Prime Minister Takaichi.
At that moment, the utterly foolish, cowardly, and vicious old media, and the United Nations, which in reality is not merely foolish but has become an agent of China—the worst dictatorship in history, in which the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies”…
An election to bring down the hammer on the countless evil deeds they have committed until now.
An election to announce their end.
An election to bring down the hammer on China, the worst dictatorship in history, where the evil of one-party Communist rule has been added to “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
All eligible voters aged 18 and over, including high school students.
As soon as you have read this essay, go to your nearest ward office, city hall, prefectural office, or town office and cast an early vote.
You do not need a voting ticket or identification—identification is merely useful to have; if you are a student, a student ID will do.
You need only go as you are.
Go immediately.
Change the world immediately.
An opportunity like this will never come again.
With just one vote, you have the chance to change not only Japan but the world.
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 all over Japan are beginning to gather in the Liberal Democratic Party she leads.
Hiroko Kado, Mio Sugita, Chisato Morishita, and Katsuyuki Watanabe of Miyagi’s 2nd district, who graduated from Sendai Daiichi High School, the rival school of my own alma mater.
There can be no doubt that he is an outstanding person.
Throughout Japan, similar genuine patriots and people of true refinement are now gathering under Sanae Takaichi.
This essay is Nobunaga’s “great voice,” presented by “The Turntable of Civilization” to every eligible voter in Japan aged 18 and over.
The once-in-a-lifetime moment to prevail in the world has arrived.
The advantage of time, the advantage of place, and the advantage of Heaven are upon us, the Japanese people.
Now, go.
Let every one of you head for your nearest polling station.
For ①, write the name of the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in your district.
For ②, simply write “Liberal Democratic Party.”
By doing only that, Japan will become a world leader alongside the United States.
Now, take the field.
As true people of the 21st century, show the world the greatest landslide victory in history.
Show the world the intelligence of the Japanese people, the courage of the Japanese people, the fortitude of the Japanese people, and true “refinement.”
To be continued.
