Published on July 24, 2019.
This essay rejects the Asahi Shimbun newsletter’s phrase “Reiwa whirlwind” and criticizes Taro Yamamoto, the anti-nuclear movement, and the media’s attitude.
It argues that the House of Councillors election demonstrated the Japanese people’s trust in Prime Minister Abe, despite the consumption-tax hike and pension-related media attacks, and discusses the international situation involving China, South Korea, and Russia, while insisting that Japan must lead the world alongside the United States.

July 24, 2019.
Just now, an article titled “Where Is the Reiwa Whirlwind Headed…” arrived in the Asahi Shimbun newsletter, but what on earth about that is a whirlwind!
Just now, an article titled “Where Is the Reiwa Whirlwind Headed…” arrived in the Asahi Shimbun newsletter, but,
what on earth about that is a whirlwind!
It is nothing but the vulgarity of the media, trying to make a living by turning anything and everything into a topic.
While a truly low-life man such as Taro Yamamoto is trying precisely to divide Japanese public opinion, and while he screams opposition to nuclear power in line with the intentions of China and others,
South Korea, China, and Russia, countries where a lie repeated 100 times becomes truth, countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” conspire and carry out a scheme to make it appear as though Takeshima is South Korean territory.
That is the international community, and that is the reality of a world in which intelligence operations are active day and night.
What the Japanese people should note in this House of Councillors election is Prime Minister Abe’s strength… the height and strength of the people’s trust in Prime Minister Abe’s politics.
Think about it.
This was an election after he had pledged to raise the consumption tax to 10 percent, although in fact it was the old Democratic Party’s Noda Cabinet that made the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito promise it in exchange for its resignation and had it enacted into law… and the maliciousness of the Constitutional Democratic Party members, who pretended not to know this and shouted their opposition to the consumption-tax increase, was extreme.
On top of that, immediately before the election, the malicious left-leaning media loudly reported the pension issue, which under ordinary circumstances would have dealt a severe blow to the administration.
And yet it was an overwhelming victory under those circumstances.
What must be recognized is that the Japanese people acknowledge Shinzo Abe as a rare statesman.
I wish that he would continue serving as prime minister until his life is exhausted.
At the very least, the media, if it were decent, should have emphasized that this was powerful proof that many Japanese people want him, in the spirit of “Learn from Germany!”, to catch up with Kohl’s 16 years and Merkel’s 16 years, and to lead the world with freedom and intelligence alongside the United States.
The Japanese people know well that “The Turntable of Civilization” is correct, that Japan must lead the world alongside the United States for another 170 years,
and that it would be outrageous for China to dominate the world.