July 25, 2010
In the post before last, “Japan Can Become a Financial Power Right Now,” I wrote that we might regard the 500 trillion yen as interest paid to the United States, which helped Japan grow into a great nation…
A short while ago, while speaking with an acquaintance, I felt a rage so intense that my hair seemed to stand on end and pierce the heavens.
What Kiichi Miyazawa, a genuine member of the elite, said at the Liberal Democratic Party’s Karuizawa Seminar in August 1992 was something that I and the lifelong friends I made after entering society naturally knew as well…Please read “Until Twenty Years Ago, There Were Genuine Elites in the Political World.”
To those pseudo-elites—masses of ugly egotism—within the government ministries, the mass media, Keidanren, and the banks themselves who crushed Miyazawa at that time and made the injection of public funds into financial institutions taboo until the situation had become utterly irretrievable and a grave national problem:
You are probably now earning far more than ten million yen a year and fully enjoying the happiness of yourselves and your families, but you will never be able to cross the Sanzu River.
It is known to all the people of the country that the Democratic Party of Japan has turned the budget-screening process into something resembling showtime, correcting wasteful spending of tax money in units of 100 billion yen and, at most, on the scale of one trillion yen…
Were there not some among those very screeners who joined the great chorus of righteousness at that time?
Clean out your ears and listen carefully.
During these foolish Lost Two Decades, as much as 500 trillion yen of national wealth—at the very least, an amount measured in hundreds of trillions of yen—was lost.
You were fortunate that this is a country without religion.
If this were a Christian country, the gates of Heaven would not be open to you.
Under faith in Jizo Bodhisattva…it is said that King Enma observes the conduct of every person in minute detail and is therefore able to judge the dead with precision…
You are sentient beings who cannot attain rebirth in the Pure Land and will inevitably fall into Hell.
Because of your egotism, countless people have taken their own lives, and even now there remains an unbroken succession of people whose paths forward have been cut off.
What is most unforgivable concerns your habitual phrase about “the children” and so forth: those very children are now being tormented in a country where one person in seven lives in poverty and, in Osaka, one household in twenty receives public assistance.
How infuriating my life has been, to think that I devoted most of it to such a foolish country, working in one year with only two days off and paying more than 17 billion yen in taxes!
You “○-beast” bastards…Even if I were to write every conceivable word of abuse from this point onward, it would still not be enough.
To those who belong to the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party:
There is no difference whatsoever between you.
You are the criminals who caused this country to lose hundreds of trillions of yen in national wealth in just twenty years.
You do not have even one second to spare for staging a worthless spectacle before even more foolish, utter idiots.
Begin acting on my proposal immediately tomorrow.
The United States is disgusted with you and has all but issued you a notice of divorce.
Nothing can be done with such inward-looking feeble-mindedness.
Even though China is a dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party, it looks at the world more properly than you do.
Japan must swiftly stand firmly alongside the United States as a great economic superpower and hegemonic nation, possessing a stock market overwhelmingly larger than those of other countries, and must always stand beside the President of the United States at the G8 and G20.
That is Japan’s rightful place.
Japan is not a country that should stand at the edge as though it had no place to stand.