Learning from other countries does not mean moral self-denial.
Japan should learn from the United Kingdom and Germany their relentless determination to expand national strength and industrial advantage—nothing more, nothing less.

May 10, 2016

Regarding the idea of “learning from another country,” I wish to state yet another extremely important point.
I was also the first to point out the strange fact that those I mentioned lacked a philosophy that any ordinary business leader naturally possesses—the desire to make their own country larger and stronger.
South Korea and China absolutely did not want to acknowledge Japan as a great power.
They did not want Japan to become one.
Kang Sang-jung repeatedly made statements aligned with their intentions, and the Asahi Shimbun continued reporting that was identical in substance.
What they claimed and the truth are complete opposites.
Certainly, Japan has things to learn from the United Kingdom and Germany.
However, this has nothing whatsoever to do with their foolish and malicious insistence that Japan should “learn from Germany” by being fabricated as a criminal state equivalent to Nazi Germany.
What Japan should learn from them is this: even when facing the world’s largest human-rights-suppressing state and a nation that carries out mass destruction of free speech, they turn a blind eye because of its population of 1.3 billion,
and, disregarding ethics entirely, they push forward relentlessly in order to strengthen their own country, to make it more powerful—that is, to serve their own industries and maximize national利益—strengthening the City, the United Kingdom, the automotive industry, and Germany itself.
It is this unwavering will to make one’s own country larger and stronger that Japan should learn.
Needless to say, there is absolutely no need to learn the vulgarity of ignoring every act of brutality committed by China purely for the sake of profit.
To be continued.