Strike the Bell with the Power of Your Discipline—To Crush Their Evil
December 31, 2015
Yesterday, on the station platform, a friend of mine—one of Japan’s most avid readers—shared the following with me.
In this month’s issue of the magazine Seiron (¥780), a dialogue article mentioned, for example, that most economics courses in Japan were based on Marxist economics.
As a result, many of those currently in key positions in the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (Nichibenren), or among Asahi Shimbun’s editorial writers, were educated under that very framework.
One scholar, now a professor at the University of Tsukuba, said:
"When I was a student, I read Das Kapital three times. It wasn’t until I went to the Soviet Union and saw a crowd of unemployed people and job postings in the backstreets of Leningrad that I realized how wrong it all was."
Hearing this, several thoughts flashed through my mind.
First, I thought: Maybe it was right that I never went to university, because I was simply too smart for it (laughs).
Second, I remembered the time when Japan’s infamous "Total Volume Regulation" (sōryō kisei) policy began—the very trigger of the “lost two decades.”
Back then, I owned real estate in Sendai that had saved our company from ruin.
However, a major trust bank’s Sendai branch—which had no prior dealings with our firm—unilaterally appraised our property and advertised it, ruining a transaction that had already been arranged.
The deal collapsed.
Three years later—when it was already too late for us—the matter reached the Tokyo District Court, where a settlement was requested.
I was stunned by what the presiding judge said directly to my face:
"That’s why I’ve always said—land doesn’t belong to anyone."
In a democratic state built on capitalism, here was a judge sounding like a character from Tolstoy’s Ivan the Fool—or more accurately (as I realized only yesterday), like a communist.
The people of Nichibenren and Asahi Shimbun are all birds of a feather.
While enjoying elite, well-paid positions in Japan—one of the safest, most peaceful, and freest nations on Earth,
they slander and defame the country.
They try to funnel ¥30 trillion of taxpayers' money—earned by 90% of Japanese citizens who work full-time for an annual income of ¥5 million—to prop up the longevity of single-party communist dictatorships.
They try to spend ¥1 trillion of national taxes on Korean Peninsula prostitutes—many of whom earned a fortune during wartime by their own will—based on utter fabrications.
The Real Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence
The true victims of wartime sexual violence were the Japanese women—
civilians of the internationally recognized state of Manchukuo—who were slaughtered in the Tongzhou Incident in horrifying, culturally incomprehensible ways at the hands of Chinese soldiers.
Or, the countless Japanese girls, aged 13 and above, who were raped while fleeing Manchuria at the end of the war by Soviet and Australian soldiers—
a level of cruelty beyond words, unspeakable in every sense.
To such real victims, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and Asahi Shimbun say nothing.
Instead, they allow ¥1 billion to be paid—without flinching—to the Korean Peninsula’s wartime prostitutes, who had earned handsomely during the war years.
Tonight, in Kyoto, the 108 bells will ring.
The monks who strike them must do so not just in prayer or ritual, but to shatter the ideologies, minds, and souls of those like them—
with the force of spiritual discipline built through years of training.
But how many monks truly understand that?
It is not enough to simply chant “Namu Amida Butsu” and hope for salvation.
It is not enough to rely on King Enma to sort the wicked.
You must strike the bells with your focused will—summoned by the ascetic power you have cultivated—to crush their evil into dust.
