That is the Japan we see today.
Money may be one of the devil’s tools that turns the human heart shallow and base.How many people in today’s Japan truly live by the nation’s sensibility, culture, virtues, morality, the spirit of the samurai—the Yamato spirit—cherishing justice, sincerity, and beauty within their hearts?It is not merely that the level of education has declined.Rather, it is the moral level of the Japanese people that has fallen.I raised my children to become wise.I did not allow indulgence.I taught them to grow into adults who can solve their own problems and stand on their own feet.Those of us who live at the bottom of society, without power, money, or vested interests, have only one way to protect our children:to raise them so they can walk firmly through life on their own.To pull themselves out of poverty.To gain their dignity as human beings.To survive society with strength and integrity.I raised my children so that they could find their own value in simply living—even if only a little.That is the utmost, and the greatest, legacy a parent can leave to their children.There is no other way to secure a better future for them.Yet knowledge and ability alone are not enough.They must also be given culture, morality, and above all, integrity.We must never raise people who are driven by greed, money, and vested interests.That is why I devoted my life—at the risk of everything—to raising my children.People who rely too heavily on others become cunning and morally unclean.Ignorance harms those around it.Worse still, such people grow accustomed to taking the easy path.In the end, they are exploited, deceived, and used by those with power—and finally become people who complain endlessly without making any effort at all.They do not even realize they are being deceived.They live only to survive the moment.This corrodes the individual, and ultimately, it corrupts society itself.It is exactly what those with vested interests desire.Ignorant people are convenient.They are easy to deceive.Easy to use.And a society in which ignorance runs rampant can only collapse.That is the Japan we see today.