Yesterday, when I saw Ms. Kaori Arimoto's X arguing, so to speak, with someone who appeared to be a Conservative Party of Japan member, I thought, no, this is a terrible idea.
I have lived my whole life without ever thinking of becoming a politician.
As serious readers know, I was born with a brain in the category of so-called geniuses.
My life was the opposite of smooth sailing.
I was the kind of person who my teacher ordered, "You stay at Kyoto University and carry the university on your shoulders.
A section chief of a leading Japanese company once said of my life, "Your life is like walking on a tightrope."
It was not a comment that made me feel excellent.
He may have hit the nail on the head.
I chose the life of a real estate business owner in Osaka, a life that none of my 440 classmates would have believed.
I was born and raised in Miyagi Prefecture.
My alma mater was Sendai Niko High School.
Sendai Niko is a high school with a deviation score of around 73.
In other words, it is a high school where the top two junior high school students in Miyagi Prefecture attend.
To give a straightforward example, two students who were my second grade above me, both science graduates and close friends, served as presidents of SONY and KDDI until a few years ago.
I became a real estate business owner in Osaka, and while fighting tough, I managed to pay over 17 billion yen in taxes to the Japanese government in just ten years at the height of my career.
In May 2011, I was hospitalized for eight months at Kitano Hospital, one of Osaka's major hospitals, after suffering a severe illness for which my doctor gave me a "25% chance of living."
Kitano Hospital is the equivalent of Kyoto University Hospital.
In other words, my classmates and juniors are doctors there.
As I write this article, I am reminded of something.
I had one thing to say to them when I first met them.
I am your classmate or senior. I have a job to do, and I can't die like this. Please help me in any way you can."
I spent eight months with almost no pain and was discharged from the hospital.
The following year, I spent almost 300 days out of 365 days a year taking pictures at the Kyoto Botanical Garden.
In July 2010, I had no choice but to appear in this column, which I have continued to write for the last half of my life, and I have continued to write it almost every day without missing a single day.
And I do it for free.
There are 7 billion people in the world.
But I doubt everyone in the world continues to do what I do.
I take pride in the fact that I am doing free work for 126 million Japanese and 7 billion people worldwide.
A long time ago, I once thought I could have had a smooth sailing life and become a politician, i.e., a prime minister.
The story of how I became a Conservative Party of Japan member is as already mentioned.
Since 2010, I started writing, or instead, since I was born with a genius-level brain, I have been "gazing at the view."
From time to time, "transcendence" came.
I have told my friends that "geniuses are inspired, mediocre geniuses are not.
The Conservative Party of Japan has identified politics as a family business as one of its major problems and one that must be broken.
But, of course, it did not yet have a solution.
The birth of the Conservative Party of Japan and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change 78 years of postwar politics happened simultaneously.
As I have already mentioned, I did not consider this a mere coincidence, much less a curious coincidence.
God, in His providence, gave Japan the role of leading the world for the next 170 years, in parallel with the United States, after the United States.
In other words, the birth of the Conservative Party of Japan is a providential act of God.
The Conservative Party of Japan is God's providence because now is an urgent time in every sense of the word.
Countless "national treasures" throughout Japan have sensed that the 78 years of postwar folly are destroying Japan and dooming the world.
As all of you with discerning eyes can see, I have written this urgent proposal to make Ms. Arimoto and others aware that this is a time of urgency.
In it, I found the only way to prevent "politics from becoming a family business. In other words, "transcendence" has arrived.
Why have I suggested that in the lower house elections that will be held this year, there should be at least 140 candidates in the primary and 60 in the proportional districts, and as many as possible beyond that, from the Japan Conservative Party?
It is because I know that I am not the only one.
There were 440 people in my class.
They are all my equals.
What is wonderful about Japan is that every one of the 47 prefectures has a high school comparable to my alma mater.
Just as I became a political party member for the first time, my equals in each of the 47 prefectures must have become members of the Japan Conservative Party.
I know this without checking.
It is because it is clear to me that they have the exact reason why I instantly became a member of the party.
So, "transcendence" has come.
As a foundation for this, the foundation should be used in this way: I had a specific "view" from my youth.
I have always said to my friends.
The ideal society is that of the Indians—a society ruled by elders with all kinds of experience (especially in nature).
In this paper, I say it clearly.
Suppose the Conservative Party of Japan wants to prevent politics from becoming a profession and considers it an urgent issue. In that case, it must add the following criteria for candidate selection as its party policy or platform.
The Conservative Party of Japan's candidates are high school graduates representing the 47 prefectures of Japan who have been shining a light in their respective fields.
The criteria are based on those who are now retired, but we will also accept those who apply even though they are about to reach retirement age.
Candidates must be able to provide the necessary deposit money themselves if they are members of the National Assembly.
Candidates for local government offices are also limited to those who can provide the required deposit, if any.
All terms of office are based on one term.
Next, people equivalent to the first-term council members, i.e., their juniors, should be selected.
In this way, they will run Japan and lead the world for the next 170 years.
In other words, "transcendence" has arrived, which solves the problem of politics becoming a family business all at once.
The following is written as a funny story, so Ms. Arimoto and Mr. Hyakuta, please listen to it as a funny story.
The high school that Ms. Arimoto and Mr. Hyakuta went to was, in some respects, quite different from me and the leading preparatory schools in the 47 prefectures of Japan, and in some respects, quite spectacular.
Ms. Arimoto was treated as a heretic and a problem child even though she was doing what was normal and natural.
Mr. Hyakuta's high school was one of the lowest in Osaka.
He was enrolled in a high school with a deviation score of 5, which Mr. Nobuyuki Kaji, a senior, mentioned.
It would have been outrageous and out of the question to entrust politics to those people.
However, all high school graduates representing the 47 prefectures are excellent.
Of course, countless other high school graduates are also excellent people who have continued to shine a corner in various fields and at multiple levels.
That is the beauty of Japan.
It is a mistake for young people, or people still active in their respective fields and at various levels, to aspire to become politicians.
A further "transcendence" comes from being a member of the Conservative Party of Japan.
It is also a very important "transcendence."
In politics, in the extreme, the party is everything, and individual members have nothing to do with it.
It is a well-known fact that the members of the Diet, with their strong personalities, are not very good at anything.
The only thing that matters is whether or not the party has the world's most wonderful policies and platforms and whether or not it is a party that is dedicated solely to the realization of those policies and platforms.
What I found very disturbing about Ms. Arimoto's exchange on X is that it is no exaggeration to say that her perception is wrong.
Life is involved. How can people whose lives and livelihoods are made insecure by becoming politicians to save Japan be able to save the country and the region?
On the contrary, such people, or rather, such people, have become politicians so far that they have made politics a family business.
Such people have made a living from politics and have turned politics into a family business.
Perhaps it was because she was so irritated that she responded, but I sensed in Ms. Arimoto a whiff of self-deception, or rather, hypocrisy, which is unbecoming.
At the same time, I felt that she was in danger if she continued in this manner.
I also sensed self-deception, or perhaps hypocrisy, in the arguments of those defending Ms. Arimoto in that exchange.
Ms. Arimoto is 60 years old, and Mr. Hyakuta is 68.
They must have dared to stand up because Japan is in a hazardous situation, with "no time to wait."
We, too, are in the same situation.
The hypocrisy of "nurturing young people" is...to put it harshly, foolishness.
It is a loss to the nation of Japan to turn away capable young people to the world of politics.
Ms. Arimoto and Mr. Hyakuta, the founder and head of the party, are constantly refining and checking the policies and platform of the Conservative Party of Japan and working hard to make them a reality.
We, the party members, are no different.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is not at all about one member or the other.
It is only whether the party is excellent or not, whether its representative or its founder has a great philosophy.
It is whether or not the party members are competent people with more than enough experience, the elders of Japanese society.
It is whether or not they are members of the party who have little interest in making money from politics.
As long as the Conservative Party of Japan's policies and platform are the best in the world, the Conservative Party of Japan is the best in the world.

2023/1/26 in Kyoto