2010-8-6
It is not simply that they have four major sports (national pastimes): baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey.

Making their dreams come true, striving toward those dreams—that is their life itself.
Americans live for their own dreams, rather than as members of some group.

How far removed is that from your petty selfishness?
I think you should consider that for once.

My proposal surpasses even the scale of the American dream.
That is because, in reality, the odds of their dreams coming true are astronomical.

My proposal—to create twenty-first-century capitalism, a Wealth of Nations for the twenty-first century—can be put into practice right now.

From the 175 trillion yen in personal assets sitting in banks, from regional banks to megabanks, which neither seek nor develop places to invest the money and instead direct it solely into government bonds, claiming that there is nowhere else to invest it, we need only direct 110 trillion yen elsewhere. In an instant, the scale of the dream that was rightfully due to our country could be realized.

Fifty-five trillion yen could come from postal savings and fifty-five trillion yen from banks.
It can be done right now.
There is no other country anywhere that can do this now… That is what an opportunity is.
That is what it means to say, “Japan’s era is not over yet.”

Even a genius can do nothing when on the verge of death.
Japan can do it immediately—even tomorrow.