Recent remarks by certain political leaders reveal a shared mindset shaped by Asahi-style discourse and Marxist-dominated academic environments.
Everyday encounters in Kyoto highlight the contrast between this mindset and genuine civic warmth.

In a sense, they bear the faces of people raised on the Asahi Shimbun and educated at universities dominated by Marxist economics.
2016-01-04
As I stroll through Kyoto almost every day, I meet people from Taiwan in many places.
On New Year’s Day, not knowing how to enter a voiced sound mark on my smartphone, I finally asked two female students sitting in front of me.
They showed me immediately, and it was a great help.
When I thanked them, I learned they were from Taiwan.
Whenever I meet people from Taiwan, perhaps because of the presence of Kō Bun’yū, the words “thank you” come out naturally.
I then add that I like Taiwan, and wish them a good trip.
However, after seeing the outcome of the year-end Japan–Korea talks, I found the strange remarks made by the current president Ma utterly unacceptable.
His posture of cozying up to a one-party communist dictatorship is clearly reflected in those remarks.
I thought about the faces of men of that kind over the past several years.
The Niigata governor who relentlessly battered the president of Tokyo Electric Power Company, unquestionably one of Japan’s top performers.
The current Okinawa governor, Onaga.
And a number of other local leaders.
At that moment, I realized it.
All of them, in a sense, share the same face.
The face of people raised on the Asahi Shimbun and educated at universities where Marxist economics once held sway.

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