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The biggest misperception is the delusion that “realization of a dream makes people happy” – Realization of a
dream is nothing to do with happiness – A person who is qualified to be a leader is a person who can show
concern for the most vulnerable people
I can’t help feeling that many people are making wrong efforts because there are an extremely variety of values on planet Earth and what is more, people are confused. I feel that people are making efforts to make them unhappy in a way. I think that the biggest misperception is the delusion that “realization of a dream makes people happy.” Seeing reality as it really is, however, it is all too common that some people achieve dream and afterward get into the worst situation. It is necessary to understand that realization of a dream is nothing to do with happiness.
We live in the society composed of a leader and followers. However, who is happier is another matter. Since the criterion of happiness or unhappiness is completely subjective, people who judge themselves cannot be happy. The more they deny their existence, the unhappier they become while on the other hand, the more they accept themselves, the happier they become.
Although this expression might create some misunderstanding, a person who completely accepts himself has no self-image. This sate of consciousness is called “enlightenment.”
If you take happiness as the criterion for judgment, you will understand that gaining power, accumulating wealth or achieving social success has nothing to do with happiness, but rather pursuit of such things would get you into unhappiness.
While fully understanding the above, I often talk with my family as follows: “a person who is qualified as a leader is a person who can show concern for the most vulnerable people.” After reaching adulthood, people stop physical growth but continue spiritual growth. When people take care of others, it leads them to raise themselves in the sense of spiritual maturity.
In that sense, I think it is obvious who is the most suitable as the prime minister in Japan.
January 2, 2019
Masatoshi Takeshita
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English translation of a Japanese article: Ryusaku Tanaka
Journal– January 1, 2019 –
Kotobuki-cho, the town where cheap lodging houses for day workers blend into
People waiting in line for more than one hour to get hot meals at a soup-kitchen
On December 31, 2018 at Kotobuki-cho, Yokohama City Photo: Yukira Sagawa
Reporter: Yukari Sagawa
Walking for nearly 10 minutes from Yokohama City Office past around 3 p.m. on December 31,
I
sawa 150-meter long line of people waiting to get free hot meals at a soup kitchen.
In front of the line is Kotobuki Park, central part of Kotobuki-cho famous for its cheap lodging
houses. People made a line to get food at a soup kitchen. On this
day, 1,200 warm soba noodleswere prepared for street people shivering in the
cold.
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People fall into poverty by the slightest thing. Some people have homes and others have no homes. They live next
door to each other in Kotobuki-cho. It is just like the social structure of our time, in which the rich and the poor
are inextricably linked together. At the back of a busy street, hundreds of people wrapped up in blankets are shivering with hunger and cold tonight, too.
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田中が横浜寿町の越年越冬闘争の取材をしていた時だった。見覚えのある顔は山本太郎だった。今どき稀な弱者目線の参院議員は、炊き出しを手伝いながら、野宿者を励ましていた。
— 田中龍作 (@tanakaryusaku) January 1, 2019
＝2018年大晦日、横浜寿町公園 撮影：佐川由佳梨＝ pic.twitter.com/gePpGFSslw
Ryusaku Tanaka
When I was collecting information about homeless people who were struggling to make it through the winter at
the end of the year, I saw a familiar face. He was Taro Yamamoto. He is an Upper House member standing for
the weak who is rarely seen nowadays. He encouraged rough street sleepers, helping at a soup kitchen.
On December 31, 2018 at Kotobuki Park, Yokohama City Photo: Yukari Sagawa
山本太郎さんの挨拶。炊き出しで若い方、障害がある方が多いのが気になったとのこと。太郎さんに厚生労働省が長く(2010まで)手帳の有無しか調査していなかったことを話しました。 pic.twitter.com/ft7pLvPc5c
— 三宅雪子（壁ではなく橋をかけよう） (@miyake_yukiko35) January 1, 2019
Yukiko Miyake
Mr. Taro Yamamoto who made a speech said that he worried about the fact that he saw many young people and
physically handicapped people at the soup kitchen. I told him that the Ministry of Health and Welfare had
made a long-term investigation (until 2010) only about whether people have physical disability certificate
or not.
この寒空極貧の死にそうな奴らに他の政治家は誰もヤラねえ炊き出しを必死でやってる山本太郎は将来の総理大臣だぜ⚠モリカケ詐欺師の安倍晋三と自民党日本会議は何してる❓⚠コイツら日本会議はオームよりヤバイ⚠日本を乗っ取り壊憲で国民を戦争にブチ込み皆殺しにしようとしてる政治カルト極右集団だ pic.twitter.com/siMSjVLuy3
— Kazuya nakayama (@Kazuyanakayam11) December 31, 2018
Kazuya nakayama
Taro Yamamoto is desperately serving hot meals to extremely poor people who are going to die outside in the
cold. No other politicians will do that. Taro Yamamoto is the right person as a prime minister in the
future! What are Shinzo Abe and LDP/Japan Conference, swindlers in Mori-Kake scandal, doing?! This scam
Japan Conference is more dangerous than a cult AUM Shinrikyo! They are a political cult extreme rightwing
group that tries to take over Japan, destroy the Constitution and plunge us into war to kill off us all.
何もわかってない人がいるようですね。与党政治家が行政を動かし世の中を形作るんですから与党自◯党が現状の「炊き出しをしなければならない状況を作ってる」わけですよ。
— 名もなき投資家 (@value_investors) January 2, 2019
野党政治家の山本太郎さんは頑張ってるわけです。それがわからないアホン人が増えてます。 t.co/zXgo6EWtoX
Nameless Investor
There are some people who know nothing. Ruling-party politicians lead the government to create the society.
Therefore, the ruling party LxP is “responsible for the current situation in which we are forced to run a
soup kitchen.”
Opposition-party politician Mr. Yamamoto is doing his best. The number of stupid Japanese who have no idea
of the fact is increasing.
SisterJonI think that people who say that “Taro Yamamoto is a good guy” for this performance are basically dumb.Because the job as a politician is not “to work at a soup kitchen” but “to create the good situation in which no soup kitchen is needed.”In a word, this is a play, leisure activity on a holiday. (Laughter)
炊き出しが売名になるんなら、国会議員全員やればいいじゃん。誰も止めないよ。おすすめだよ。
— 中野昌宏 Masahiro Nakano (@nakano0316) January 1, 2019
Masahiro Nakano
If helping at a soup kitchen is publicity stunt, why don’t all Diet members do that?
Nobody stop it. We recommend it.