Answers From LaRouche

Q: I'd like to be the Prime Minister of Japan in the future,
please give me some advice.
                                   - from January 24, 2023 West Coast Cadre School

Question: Hello, Mr. LaRouche. I'm from Japan. I'd like to be the Prime Minister of Japan in the future. I'm very worried about my country, so I want to find solutions to problems in my country, but I don't have an idea yet, so give me some advice.

LaRouche: Well, what we've got in Japan is simple. Look what we've got. We have Asian culture. Now, most people from Europe or the United States don't really understand Asian culture. They really don't understand. But I've got some encounter with it. I do have some understanding. You have different cultures, and different cultural trends. I mean, when you get Koreans and Japanese in the same room, you've got a problem already, as we know. You've got China. You've got Southeast Asia. You've got the Philippines, which is a completely different kind of situation. You've got an Indonesian mentality, which is also different. India.

What we're going to be doing is, obviously, developing, because of the great population of China, India, Southeast Asia and so forth, we're going to be developing the area, extensively, in order to accommodate these large populations. China is already moving to the largest scale of infrastructure development on the planet, right now. Russia, together with Kazakstan, is very much oriented toward this strategic triangle of Russia, China, India. That cooperation is ongoing.

Japan is financially bankrupt, but Japan has another aspect to it. It has a legacy as a high-technology agro-industrial culture, especially industrial. Japan's tendency will be, given the characteristic of the islands. which are mostly mountainous and not particularly favorable to concentrated habitation, Japan's destiny is to assume its role as an advanced industrial-technology island, or set of islands, and to participate in long-term agreements for the development of Eurasia. That is Japan's primary mission. It was sometimes called the "Go South" mission in Japan, to go in the direction of development of areas that need development, which include opportunities in China.

So, my particular intention is, as a prospective President, is to take a section of the area, which includes north China, it includes Korea, it includes a part of Siberia, and Japan—it's the North Asian area, which is an area of great potential development, even within that area. You have the Bohai area in China, which is the great bay area. You have the area to the north of it, which is adjunct to both North Korea and Russia, and also, across the water to Japan. It's a natural area for a great degree of development, particularly if we're doing this kind of trans-Siberian kind of development, this area becomes an area of industrial development comparable to the concentration in the Bohai area nearby, south, in China.

This is the kind of destiny we have, and my view is that I want that thing to work. I want that cooperation to occur. It is the future of that whole section of Asia, and it's also an integral part of the future for Eurasia as a whole. And Japan has, I think, a very clear mission to pick up and adopt and carry out in that context.

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