After the long harsh summer, autumn has come at last. Here in the highland, chilly air in the morning makes us know that summer has gone. We enjoy the clear blue sky and crisp air, but sometimes autumn brings long cold rain.
These years our land was attacked by natural disasters again and again. The last one was the earthquake in Hokkaido on September 6th. When I first watched TV, I couldn’t understand what had happened; green of wood should have covered the scene, but there were a lot of brown patches all over; many hills and mountains crushed or slid down into villages and rice fields. In Hokkaido it is getting colder faster, and people must have troubles, I suppose. How are they doing? Before forgetting the former one, we suffer the next natural disaster these years. What a place we are living in!
We are having even bigger disaster now. Shinzo Abe has started his third reign. There was an election among the LDP, and they voted for Abe. We have a small constituency system, and the LDP has more than half seats though they get only 30% votes. The top of the biggest party becomes the top of Japan. So Abe is our prime minister for the third times. We have no right to choose the leader of the country, and have to accept the result of the strange election.
Abe is just a spoiled and stupid boy who has never contemplated things deep and sincere, has never think of weak ones or poor ones, but after a pretty long reign he is now worse, arrogant and dictatorial. And the ones who voted for the LDP are us, anyway.
Right wing seems to have more power, and they support Abe. What kind of people are they? When we were standing by the street and hold placards, a car ran in front of us shouting something a few times. One day the man in the car came to us trying to take photos of us. His car was a small and shabby one, and his clothes didn’t seem expensive. Clearly he was not a rich and successful person in this competitive society. I thought, “You should have a bigger and gorgeous car when you support Abe. Do you know he is not interested in you. He works only for the rich and power or his friends.”
Like in the other countries, the people who support nationalism and the right wing and hate different people are not happy enough themselves. They feel stronger and safer when they are in the ally of the power, don’t they?