・The most “foundation” of the world is values, and values determine the shape of the world. The elements that make up when values are broken down are made up of a sense of beauty (what is beautiful) and a sense of ethics (what is correct). When these values change, the world changes drastically (p4)
・Japan for the second time (post-war Japan) abandoned the values (strong Japan) that Japan had once had until then and sought a rich Japan (p23)
・As for television broadcasting (terrestrial analog), only TV stations with a transmission output of 50 kilowatts were recognized in Tokyo, so TV stations in Kansai and other regions have radio wave outputs of 60 kilowatts (p33)
・The current crisis in Japan is a “society without 3Y” = “no desire, no dream, no motivation”, this is the “third defeat” (p56)
・There is a story about how Kira Uenosuke, who is trying to maintain the Kira salt market with low productivity, did not feel well about Asano Naichito, who aims to expand sales channels for highly productive Ako salt (p66)
・Gold was in circulation in Edo, and silver was in circulation in Osaka and western Japan, but in regional feudal domains, it was exclusively domain bills and coins (p68)
・A major characteristic of the Edo period system was the complete separation of “roku (secular income),” “power (position holding power),” and “rank (official rank based on the ritsuryo system)” (p71)
・There are 3 definitions of the military: 1) a group that can collectively operate powerful weapons; 2) an organization that assumes that they work on the battlefield themselves and is different from the police and is self-contained; 3) they can make their own laws, and military trials are possible (p84)
・The Meiji Restoration was a far more thorough reform than the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution, there were very few casualties, feudal lords were made into peerage families, and a system was also created to support unemployed samurai with Chichiroku public bonds, which is a wonderful thing about the first defeat (p90)
・As a major catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, there was an organization that lowered money from the sky and gave technical guidance that surprised the public, and there was soil to accept it (p96)
・What can be cited as one of the serious economic policies in the early Meiji period was the liberalization of imports of “cotton,” which was the largest agricultural product after rice (p98)
・Farmland landowners exploited farmers to save small money and deposit them in banks; the Meiji government made banks by investing in landlords, brewers, and usury loans, collected deposits from landlords, gave them to zaibatsu, and invested intensively in the 4 sectors of mining, shipping, railways, and textiles (spinning, raw silk) (p100)
・The Qing government paid compensation for the Sino-Japanese War with a single pound-denominated check issued by the Bank of England in accordance with Japan's request (p109)
・It was the National Industrial Exposition held in Meiji 36 that advertised technological innovation from coal (steam engine) as an energy source to electric power. After that, “telegraph poles” were built all over the country, and since telegraph poles also functioned as utility poles, they were shared for both power transmission and telegraphy (p112)
・Standard 3 elements of mass production, 1) parts assembly method, 2) belt conveyor system, 3) 1 worker, 1 work (p114)
・The real elite is someone who has all three roles (power) and honor (rank) (p125)
・Regulating political funding is the quickest way to crush democracy. Regulate scandals using them as shields. By regulating political funds, politicians were forced to rely on Army confidential expenses (p129,130)
・The members of parliament at the time who did not support Tsubasa Taisei were “Saito Takao,” known for his anti-military speeches, and “Abe Hiroshi (Kan) = Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's paternal grandfather, mother is Kishi Shinsuke) (p130)
・Japan's post-war goals became three: safety, equality, and economic growth (p144)
・For the third time, I would like to advocate that fun be made justice as a value of Japan (p172)
・The reason the mass media didn't make noise about the soccer lottery is because the competent government office is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (p178)
・If bureaucratic leadership were to collapse, there are 5 phases, 1) declining birthrate and aging population, 2) collapse of local administration, 3) the Great Recession, which are already visible, 4) the international situation (US President Trump, China, EU split, North Korea, etc.), 5) the fourth industrial revolution (changes due to robots, drones, autonomous driving, big data) steam engines (primary), electric power/internal combustion engines (secondary) (p182)
・The Second Industrial Revolution was driven by electricity and internal combustion engines, and all people now have access to means of transportation and communication. The Third Industrial Revolution was a standard mass production revolution, mass production/assembly/labor management of parts, one worker, one task (p183)
・In the world after the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era of frighteningly long leisure time will emerge as to what kind of world robots and AI will create (p185)
・The fourth industrial revolution is not only technological innovation through robots and AI; it also deepens human thinking and expands enjoyment (p195)
July 21, 2019
