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Author:JAZZY
Rural Old Man's Leisure Diary. Turning memories into records, and records into memories.
I love jazz, and I also love classical music.
JAZZY is 'Yokoshimana Jijii,' a crooked old man.
In a world where people are constantly on the lookout, let's pause for a moment and squat down. Then, I want to write about the state of society as seen through a sidelong glance.
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2025-01-22-Wed
4210 Shift to Japan-First
Today I visited a hot spring.
I think it’s nice to go to a hot spring occasionally.
Since I went during the daytime, it was surprisingly uncrowded and very relaxing.
Trump’s “America First” is unacceptable.
Ishiba talks about further strengthening the alliance, but this is also unacceptable.
When the world is saying “America First” is unacceptable, doing the opposite makes us nothing but a lapdog.
Don’t he feel ashamed, with faces like that?
At this point, the stance Japan should take is “Japan-First.”
This is a great opportunity.
If that’s the way they’re going to act, then we should act this way.
First, we need to dissolve the Japan-U.S. alliance and demonstrate a stance of protecting our own country by ourselves.
We must stop buying weapons and military equipment from the United States.
Remove all U.S. bases and make them leave.
This would also resolve the Okinawa base issue cleanly.
As a result, we could significantly reduce military expenditures.
Gradually, the military budget should be scaled down to the bare minimum.
The funds saved should be redirected to welfare.
The first step in “Japan-First” is the dissolution of the Japan-U.S. alliance.
2025-01-19-Sun
4207 Return to Nature
I attended a New Year’s gathering for pensioners.
Is it inevitable that the number of participants decreases year by year?
I declared boldly, “When we are old, we’ll do everything we want with all our might, and then die.”
I wonder if that sparked something in them.
I wonder if it made them think about living a bit longer.
I wonder if it gave them a bit of energy.
Or so I hope.
*The Beatles’ “Get Back” is one of my signature songs, but the characters that appear—like Jojo or Loretta—are all rather “odd.”
The song calls out to them, asking them to return.
Return where? To the places they used to belong.
In other words, it’s about going back to where you started.
I used to think it was saying “return to nature,” but now I’ve come to see it simply as a return to the origin.
Still, perhaps the origin is nature itself.
I feel that The Beatles believed humanity had forgotten or drifted away from nature.
Come to think of it, the idea of “returning to nature” predates them—figures like Rousseau, Tao Yuanming, or maybe even Li Bai are said to have expressed similar sentiments.
They warned us that forgetting nature would lead to nothing good.
In an age when AI is evolving rapidly—or perhaps even in the present—isn’t this warning still relevant?
These are the thoughts that cross my mind these days.
2025-01-17-Fri
4205 Aim for Permanent Ceasefire Through Dialogue
I feel sleepy even though I spent nearly 8 hours in bed.
However, my body feels refreshed.
＊Gaza has reached a ceasefire, but only for six weeks.
Is it impossible to achieve a permanent ceasefire?
The media claims that Trump's influence was at play.
But shouldn't it be said that it was international public opinion that drove the change?
It would be problematic if everyone became subservient to Trump.
The United Nations should be the first to act.
Undermining the UN is unacceptable.
The principle must be dialogue first, dialogue second, and dialogue third.
Dialogue should be the foundation.
If international issues are driven by deals or personal pressures, democracy will weep.
From now on, the United Nations should take action.
A UN peacekeeping force should be permanently stationed in Gaza to maintain strict surveillance.
The UN should also intervene in Israel.
It must remain centered on dialogue.
2025-01-16-Thu
4204 Trump, a leader of an immigrant nation who rejects immigrants
I’ve been working on deciphering an old document, and I’m almost finished, but there are a few characters I can’t figure out, and I’ve hit a wall.
Still, I think I’ve managed to grasp the general meaning.
I feel like I’ve done my best.
＊Today, I attended a meeting of the Article 9 Association in the afternoon.
This was the second session in a series about understanding what kind of country the United States is.
We learned that it’s essentially a nation that thrives on war, being a military-industrial complex state with politics deeply intertwined in this system.
Additionally, we discussed its other characteristics: a gun culture, systemic discrimination, an immigrant nation, a white-first ideology, and more.
We also talked about this year’s main events.
Although nothing is concrete yet, we recognized the need for preparation and decided to start as early as tomorrow.
2025-01-15-Wed
243 Naoki Prize Goes to Shin Iyohara
Today was all about studying.
I worked on deciphering old documents, but as a novice, it takes me quite a while to decode even a single character.
*Now, here's some wonderful news from today.
Shin Iyohara's "The Sea That Inherits Indigo"(Ai wo tugu umi) has won the Naoki Prize!
Since he's one of my favorite authors, I was overjoyed.
The drama adaptation of "A Classroom Across the Sky", set in a night high school, must have been a significant factor as well.
This story has begun again as a second season.
The first installment, "Cosmic Girl", was published in the magazine All Yomimono.
The second, "Pythagoras Boy", also unfolds in the same night high school setting.
