It is very interesting to imagine what the mental structure of people like Vice-Minister Yano at the Ministry of Finance is.
I had a lot of relationships with people graduating from the University of Tokyo. Those who can pass the entrance exam at the University of Tokyo can use their brains crazily fast. Memory is outstandingly good. They have an extremely high level of understanding of what was taught by teachers and college professors.
However, they tend to be weak in authority and not to think with their brains, and obediently obey the authorities and authorities such as teachers, professors, and their bosses. Perhaps after the Meiji Restoration, the role of the University of Tokyo was to strengthen the centralized state system (I'm not criticizing this), so I think that it has fostered people with such thoughts.
By the way, I think it's difficult for persons at the University of Tokyo to win the Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize-class researches should require ideas that overturn the authority of the past. I think it is difficult to come up with innovative ideas in a system like the University of Tokyo where persons can get research jobs at a young age as successors to their professors.
Unexpectedly, I think that Vice-Minister Yano's state may be his real intention. Just as Communists are obsessed with communism, many Treasury bureaucrats may be obsessed with the theory of fiscal equilibrium. Many of the members of the Japanese Communist Party, including Kazuo Shii, the leader of the party, are graduates from the University of Tokyo, but just because they are smart does not mean that they have the right views and ideas.
When I was a high school student, I was very impressed after reading Saburo Shiroyama's novel” Dansi No Honnkai” or " Man's true worth ".
The content is, "While Japan was suffering from a chronic recession after World War I, Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi, who was called the Prime Minister of the Lion, and Mr. Junnosuke Inoue, the Minister of Finance who experienced the Governor of the Bank of Japan, decided to overcome the difficult situation at the time. They try to lift the gold embargo and carry out austerity policies, but because it involves disarmament, they were hated by the army and are killed by a series of attacks by members of the right wings.
I think Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi and Finance Minister Junnosuke Inoue are great people with aspirations and courage. I had a desire to live a life like Hamaguchi Osachi and Junnosuke Inoue after reading the novel. However, the wrong austerity policy put Japanese society in even more trouble.
Vice-Minister Yano's favorite book might be " Dansi No Honnkai”". If I have a chance, I would like to ask him.
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