Cloud Museum on the Hill

Hi, everyone in the world!! It's 5:40 pm here in Japan. It's the time to deliver my today's column:

The name of the museum is partly borrowed from a book written by Ryotaro Shiba, "Cloud above the Hill".

The editorial of Sanyo newspaper told a story today. In the fiction, Japan in Meiji period was described. Japan was winning in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905.

And in the fiction, a fact was repeatedly emphasized that Japan barely won, and it was like walking on thin ices. However, post-Meiji Japanese citizens could not understand it.

The editorial picked up the words shown largely in the museum such as, "Winning became absolute, and the mysterious strength of Japanese military was believed. In this moment, Japanese became stupid ethnically." "Loss of the war gave Japanese citizens rationality, and win of the war made citizens mad."

I think that this theory strongly works in modern times as well because we are living in the battle of economy, global economy. In that world, winning (earning) becomes absolute.

In France, Mr. Sarkozy took the helm with a decision that France will follow the America and British style market economy trying to win at the global economy. Excluding invisible forces and taking the result straight, it means that France citizens support the change.

I am a little worried that if the value in the world strongly goes to the same one, winning (earning) under any conditions and with any methods, horrible history may repeat.

P.S.
The feeling of France this time seems to be a bit similar to the time when the ex-Prime Minister Koizumi in Japan got the seat.

He also enthusiastically mentioned words such as change, opportunity, destroy the old systems. He tried to change the old society into the competitive society. And…he did so just by destroying the general citizens' lives. On the contrary, he protected government workers including the public sectors. Citizens were totally cheated.

As time goes by, France citizens would know that whether or not the new President is a true reformer.

Thank you for visiting and have a nice day!!

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