Record of the Sengoku Pageboy in the Reiwa Era 0030

 ＜Record of the Sengoku Pageboy in the Reiwa Era 0030＞

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Kasugayama Castle, Narumi Shogunate

Lord: Uesugi Douman Maru Kagetora

Recorded by: Pageboy

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Year 451 of the Tensho era, 1st of July

"The High-Ranking Citizens of Japan, Unaware of Their Place"

Approximately 150 years have passed since the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, but the Meiji Restoration could be described as a subjugation of lower-ranking samurai by higher-ranking samurai. The unequal situation of the Japan-US Treaty of Amity and Commerce further amplified the turmoil in Japan. In the American Civil War, the Union forces achieved an early end with the gold and silver they took from Japan. They sold the surplus weapons to both the Shogunate army (handled by France) and the Imperial forces (handled by the UK), leading to the Boshin War and the depletion of Japan's financial resources. Lord Sakamoto Ryoma sought to gain profits through arms trading. Declarations of cleansing Japan and the Eight-Point Plan aboard ships resulted in uprisings among lower-ranking samurai. The new Meiji government engaged in ambiguous diplomatic reception at the bewildering Deer Cry Hall. The people of the Reiwa era should be aware of such events. If the Narumi Shogunate led by Lord Kagetora had continued, such tragedies would not have occurred. By earning war reparations through overseas deployments, the military briefly boasted the strongest armaments in the world, but it did not reach a level of leading the world like in the Sengoku period. It became a lesson that the leader of the country did not learn from past history, but the politics for the people had not permeated until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Emperor Hirohito, under the constitutional monarchy of absolute rule, led to the tragedy of prolonging the end of the war with his intention to negotiate favorable terms for peace. The post-war national structure was determined in the secret meetings held eleven times between Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur, which clearly shows that the sense of an independent nation has not taken root among the people even in the Reiwa era. As evidence, there is a whiff of vested interests in the linking of My Number cards and the imposition of irrational economic policies, mistreatment of the vulnerable, and reckless healthcare policies. Politicians are trampling on the people's rights with their hereditary privileges in politics. It's no wonder the people are angry that the inheritance tax is zero for political organizations that have accumulated wealth through hereditary positions. In that case, it would mean that you also don't need to pay inheritance tax. The teachings of the ancients, "Begin with yourself," have become famous but meaningless. Have you, the people, become spineless? Lord Kagetora is now calling for action.

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