Broken Romance

A strange coalition by a novelist and a lawyer was broken up as the young lawyer found a new political partner. Although the old novelist was regretful in missing his indispensable political tool for his promotion, the young lawyer seemed to be hopeful in his new life coming. But there is no such happy story as The Graduate, in which young couple will be successful being free from their circumstances. They are definitely going to be in trouble with difference in values.

 Co-presidents of Japan Restoration Party, Shintaro Ishihara and Toru Hashimoto, agreed on separating their party in two. That meant that their joint effort for changing current regime had finished. “I’ve been loving Hashimoto. It was nice moment in my life to have met him,” told Ishihara in a way of cheap opera. “It is my responsibility of inviting this kind of situation,” said Hashimoto. That story reminded someone of an old popular song. “If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me. No baby, please don’t go.”

You need to have a close look at the facts, before being moved by this faked beautiful story. At the beginning of the coalition, when Ishihara joined Hashimoto’s new party upholding “restoration” in 2012, both leaders had different aims in their politics. While Hashimoto established the party for getting rid of bureaucracy for disseminating power to regional governments, Ishihara insisted on abolishment of current constitution, asserting it as posed by occupation authority of the United States right after the World War II.

The reason of separation of the party was also Ishihara’s rigidness on the constitutional abolishment. When Hashimoto was managing to join with a new small party called Yuino-tou, Ishihara insisted on including “creating subjective constitution” in new platform. As long as Yuino-tou was taking a position to respect current constitution, the merge of parties was unrealistic.

The biggest difference of the two personalities was clear. While Ishihara has been living in a world of idealism, though it might have often been a fantasy, Hashimoto, as a court lawyer, was a man of actual benefit. Hashimoto could not understand why Ishihara was so rigorous on the constitution issue.

Anyway, an ultra right wing party would be falling down into small fragments. Politics over reinterpretation of Article IX of the Constitution will be confusing with movements of opposite parties. Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, is looking this trouble as a audience of cheap opera.