The other night, I went to Namba on an errand for the first time in a long while.
I was astonished.
Namba is now Tokyo’s Roppongi…certainly not in any good sense whatsoever.
I go shopping in Umeda almost every day.
Recently, compared with a while ago, I have been encountering far fewer Chinese people.
Nothing could be more reassuring or welcome.
Yet even so, compared with before the Kishida Cabinet came into being…or, to expand on that, before Komeito joined the ruling coalition and began securing the post of Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism…the number of foreigners who give the impression of being anything but highly skilled workers has increased substantially.
Setting aside what their own grave policy failures have brought about…it is an undeniable fact that all developed countries “abhorred the prospect of entering Japanese-style prolonged deflation as they would snakes and scorpions” and took action early to prevent it…it is an undeniable fact that this is the result of the folly of embarking on immigration policies on the grounds of a declining birthrate.
The internet is overflowing with voices identifying former Prime Minister Kishida as the chief culprit.
Arguing that resolving the labor shortage caused by the declining birthrate was an urgent task, the Kishida administration and business leaders began implementing measures closely resembling an immigration policy on a large scale.
Now, did Japan’s GDP rise substantially as a result?
The facts are precisely the opposite.
According to yesterday’s news, Japan will apparently be overtaken even by Britain in a few years and fall to sixth place in the world.
It is hard to believe that Japan’s GDP could fall below that of a country long described as suffering from the “British disease.”
As I wrote when I began this column on July 16, 2010, Japan’s GDP at the time…nearly matched…the combined size of Britain and Germany.
Nominal GDP Around 2010 (Converted into U.S. Dollars)

Country / Comparison	2009	2010
Japan	Approximately $5.34 trillion	Approximately $5.81 trillion
United Kingdom	Approximately $2.43 trillion	Approximately $2.50 trillion
Germany	Approximately $3.48 trillion	Approximately $3.47 trillion
France	Approximately $2.70 trillion	Approximately $2.65 trillion
United Kingdom + Germany	Approximately $5.91 trillion	Approximately $5.97 trillion

And now, in just sixteen years, to be overtaken even by Britain.
All of this is the result of the low intelligence and folly of the old media, led by NHK and Asahi; the so-called intellectuals, including university professors and others, who follow their lead and constitute a group afflicted with infantile leftism; and the political hacks who have pandered to them.
In just sixteen years, an unbelievable outcome had demonstrated that what this column had continued to point out had hit the mark.
My hair stands on end with rage.
Enma, the King of Hell, will surely have the harshest torments prepared for every one of them.
Incidentally, regarding the much-trumpeted labor shortage, the fact that the reality is otherwise—in other words, that the solutions lie in the matters this column has repeatedly discussed, and that the root cause lies in the way the education system is structured—is fully encapsulated in Nobuyuki Kaji’s essay, a supreme example of penetrating insight.
In other words, these foolish, dim-witted pseudo-moralists force people with an academic deviation score of 5 into high schools and universities, creating a group of more than 350,000 social recluses…driving people who could have earned ample money in primary industries into the ranks of those dismissed as useless failures in so-called corporate clerical or sales positions.
The figures show that they are the very culprits responsible for the ruin and betrayal of the nation.