The Panama Papers, which shocked the world, inadvertently demonstrated why Japan and the United States are the nations that should lead the global order.
This chapter examines the absence of Japanese and U.S. government officials from the scandal and its deeper implications.

2016-04-07
News that recently swept across the world
brilliantly proved the correctness of my arguments.
It was the Panama Papers.
At the same time,
they also proved the correctness of my critiques of Asahi Shimbun.
This incident was reported on television several days ago.
The following day, for example,
the Sankei Shimbun reported it on its front page.
Given that it was an incident that forced a sitting prime minister to resign immediately,
that was only natural.
However, Asahi Shimbun
did not report it until today.
They likely judged that remaining silent any longer would be inconvenient.
Or perhaps they concluded that,
now that the matter had become known worldwide,
reporting it would no longer invite complaints from China
or interfere with their reporting activities.
Such calculations, after all,
are always necessary for them when dealing with China.
Putin was included.
The name of Xi Jinping was also included.
The name of Prime Minister Cameron was included as well.
Yet the names of Japanese government officials
and U.S. government officials—
as for the United States I cannot say,
but for Japan it was only natural—
were not included at all.
As for the businessman in question,
I do not know how he figured into it.
In other words,
the Panama Papers proved
that Japan and the United States
are the nations that should lead the world.