An essay arguing for Japan’s future and its global role. The author attributes Japan’s 20-year stagnation to “politics and media with the mental age of 12” while highlighting the country’s potential, including its world-class technology and $15 trillion in personal assets. The piece criticizes the U.S. for its handling of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and points to a lack of philosophy among nuclear-armed nations, warning against 20th-century capitalism and the countries that blindly follow it.

2013/1/28

The idea that the era of Japan is over is preposterous. Japan must continue to prosper for another 170 years as a super economic power standing alongside, or complementing, the United States. With its constitution, Japan has abandoned armed forces other than for self-defense, so it should just leave military power to the U.S. (Note: The author’s unique aphorism, irony, and箴言). Japan just needs to continue to prosper economically.

Why has Japan been in such a great stagnation for the past 20 years? To put it harshly, it’s because of the media and politics with the mental age of 12. Japanese companies are exposed to daily innovation and competition, refining world-class technology in various fields and holding large shares. It goes without saying that they are globally excellent. This combination of diligence, a quality that doesn’t neglect details, and a high level of education has led Japan, the only country in the world with an imagination for the atomic bomb, to possess the world’s largest individual assets of 1,500 trillion yen. I am convinced that this is also the will of God.

On the other hand, what about the world?

The U.S. did not declare to the world that it dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to fulfill Japan’s war responsibility for siding with the losers by forming the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy in the century of war. It’s no exaggeration to say that the U.S. remains the nation that has committed the worst crime in human history.

Because the U.S. did not make that declaration to the world, the world lacked an imagination for the atomic bomb. This led to such foolishness as repeatedly conducting atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Islands even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This did not just spread to other developed countries but also to fascist nations with the mental age of 12. As a result, even after experiencing the worst catastrophe in human history—Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the world remains in the foolish state of possessing atomic bombs. It is lamentable that many of these foolish nations are ones where no one knows what they will be like in 10 years.

This demonstrates that 20th-century capitalism has no great philosophy. It’s enough to just make money, no matter how terrible the country you’re dealing with is.

They blindly follow the idea that it’s good for a company to get big and become number one in the world. For such countries, “The Turntables of Civilization” can never turn.

God will not only not smile upon such countries, but will surely punish them. I now declare to the world that this is the inevitability of history.

As Bob Dylan said, this is especially true now. Countries that act big or speak loudly just because of their population and delude themselves into thinking they have become a global winner will have to be proven by God, just as Bob Dylan said, that today’s winners are tomorrow’s losers.

The day will come when they realize they were nothing more than sheep grazing while waiting for the day they would die. The world should also be starting to realize that this day is not far off, because no nation that has thrived by making light of human freedom and truth has ever lasted. To be continued.