The author outlines a vision for Japan’s revitalization, arguing that the country’s “lost 20 years” were caused by second-rate media and opportunistic experts. The essay calls for the rebuilding of Japan’s once world-class bureaucracy, stating that the role of politicians is to leverage these “most excellent players.” The current Abe administration is praised for demonstrating the correct approach by effectively utilizing its bureaucrats.

2013/1/28

All countries are based on state capitalism.

What should Japan do? The correct form of state capitalism is to rebuild the bureaucracy, once hailed as the world’s best team, with the most excellent players from Japan.
They would analyze global situations without fail and scrutinize the economic policies of other countries at the highest level.
That is to say, we must rebuild a bureaucracy of this caliber.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the mass media that brought about Japan’s lost 20 years, and the businessmen, critics, and academics who emerged in inverse proportion to those two decades, are truly second-rate.
Not only are they second-rate, but some are even tantamount to traitors.
As the Asahi newspaper’s recent series “Limited Japan” wrote, “The reappearance of bureaucrats who were once famous worldwide, the summer of the strong-willed, is awaited.”
The role of a politician is to let these most excellent players of Japan exercise their power to the fullest and develop the country without fail. Moreover, developing Japan, the country to which the “Turntable of Civilization” has turned, is also the will of God.
The nation’s politics must never again be entrusted to the second-rate media that created these 20 years, or the fakes who use them to claim that the bureaucrats are to blame.
The current Abe administration first perfected the basics of governance, which allowed it to implement correct policies.
The government is being managed flawlessly.
In other words, it is because they are using the bureaucrats they should be using.