In August 1992, the proposal by true elite Kiichi Miyazawa to inject public funds into the financial system was crushed by a chorus of false “righteousness” from bureaucrats, the media, business leaders, and banks. This decision triggered Japan’s “Lost 20 Years” and the loss of up to 500 trillion yen in national wealth. While those responsible now enjoy annual incomes exceeding 10 million yen, one in seven children in Japan lives in poverty. This essay condemns both ruling and opposition parties as equally culpable and demands that Japan reclaim its rightful position as an economic superpower standing beside the United States.

I Pray That Enma, the King of Hell, Will Not Forgive Those Who Raised the Chorus in August 1992
2010-07-25

In the previous essay, “Japan Can Immediately Become a Financial Superpower,” I wrote that the 500 trillion yen could be regarded as interest paid to the United States for helping Japan grow.
However, earlier today, while speaking with an acquaintance, I felt a rage that pierced the heavens.

What I and my lifelong closest friends, ever since we entered society, naturally knew, was also said by the true elite Kiichi Miyazawa in August 1992 at the LDP Karuizawa Seminar—something utterly obvious.
Please read “Until 20 Years Ago, There Were True Elites Even in the World of Politics.”

To you pseudo-elites, mere masses of ugly egoism within the ministries, the media, Keidanren, and the banks themselves, who crushed Miyazawa at that time and made the injection of public funds into financial institutions a taboo until it became utterly too late and a critical national crisis—

You now earn far more than 10 million yen annually and enjoy the happiness of yourselves and your families, but you will never be allowed to cross the River Sanzu.

It is widely known that the Democratic Party, as if performing a show, is engaging in so-called budget screening, denouncing waste of public funds in units of hundreds of billions, at most one trillion yen.
But are there not among those very screeners people who joined that chorus of so-called righteousness at that time?
Open your ears wide and listen carefully.

During these foolish lost twenty years, national wealth of up to 500 trillion yen—at the very least in the range of hundreds of trillions—has been lost.

It is fortunate for you that this is a nation without religion.
If this were a Christian nation, there would be no gate of heaven for you, and under Jizō Bodhisattva belief—where Enma, the King of Hell, observes human conduct in detail and judges the dead meticulously—you would be beings who could never attain rebirth in the Pure Land and would certainly fall into hell.

Because of your egoism, countless people committed suicide, and those whose paths forward were cut off still continue, even now, in endless succession.

What is most unforgivable is your habitual rhetoric about “the children,” while those very children are now being tormented in a nation where one in seven people is poor, and in Osaka where one in twenty households relies on public assistance.

That I devoted the greater part of my life to such an utterly foolish nation, working at times with only two days off in an entire year and paying over 17 billion yen in taxes—what a detestable life that has been.

Against these “○-beasts”… even if I were to string together every possible word of abuse from here onward, it still would not be enough.

To those who belong to both the Democratic Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, there is absolutely no difference between you.
In just these twenty years, you are criminals who caused the loss of hundreds of trillions of yen in national wealth.

You do not even have one second to waste performing your worthless spectacles before even greater fools.
Starting tomorrow, immediately begin implementing my proposals.

The United States, in its exasperation with you, has almost completely given up on you.
With such inward-looking stupidity, nothing can be done.
Even China, for all that it is a Communist dictatorship, looks at the world far more properly than you do.

Swiftly become a super–economic hegemonic state with a stock market overwhelmingly larger than any other nation’s, standing shoulder to shoulder with the United States.
At the G8 and G20, you must always stand beside the President of the United States.
That is Japan’s rightful position.

Japan does not belong in a corner, standing as if it has no place to stand.

(274) John Lennon – Help Me to Help Myself – YouTube