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That's Why I Told You So Much (Magazine House Shinsho)
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Restricted, poor, and hard to live in――
This country's flawed system
Either exploit it, escape from it, or...
The latest volume of Uchida-style "Japanese Theory"!!
Japan has become a "restricted country" during the lost 30 years.
Problems are piling up, such as the confusion of neoliberalism, economic disparity and tax imbalance, declining birthrate and aging population, low-level politics, and scandals in major companies.
A sense of resignation is spreading throughout society, and ordinary citizens also feel the restrictions...
A warning book about the "restricted country"!
★ The disappearance of "adults"――Japan's crisis
★ The sorrow of the Japanese government watching America's mood
★ Whether to use the status of a vassal state or escape from it
★ Food culture is "security" rather than "economy"
★ Common points of Japan's "failing organizations"
★ Modern capitalism aiming for "21st-century enclosure"
★ Haruki Murakami's depiction of "things not of this world"
★ Protecting the "boundary" between nature and civilized society
★ Life is not "for problem-solving" ……etc.
In 2011, I built a dojo called Gaifukan in Kobe. The first floor is the dojo, and the second floor is my home. At the dojo, I practice several martial arts such as Aikido, Jodo, Iaido, and Shinkage-ryu, but not only that, we also hold performances of Noh, Gidayu, Kamigata dance, Rakugo, theater, Pansori, opera, and also invite people for lectures. In that respect, it is the same as a public martial arts hall or hall. The difference is that at Gaifukan, I only do what I "want to do." This is not a "rental hall."
Rather, Gaifukan is a kind of "community."
Just recently, I went swimming at the beach with my disciples. Since we were a group of about a dozen, we rented an entire inn. We spent two nights and three days swimming, having BBQs, drinking alcohol, and chatting together.
Gaifukan is supposed to be a martial arts dojo, but the concept when I created it was "a place like a Showa-era company."
Young people probably don't know anymore, but when I was a child, Japanese companies in the 1940s and 1950s all had lifetime employment and seniority-based systems. They were a kind of pseudo-family. Therefore, my father's subordinates often came to our house for meals. We played mahjong, Go, went hiking, mountain climbing, and visited the company's beach house together. I really liked that way of gathering.
However, Japanese companies later abolished lifetime employment and seniority systems as "old customs" and switched to meritocracy and ability-based systems from America. The employment style of working for one company from hiring to retirement no longer existed. At the same time, companies ceased to be pseudo-families. Originally, due to modernization and urbanization, the former geographically and blood-related communities disappeared, and the pseudo-families that barely substituted community functions also vanished, so urban residents atomized and became like grains of sand.
I thought that was not good. So, I decided to establish a community of mutual support and mutual aid once again. I wanted to recreate a "loose community" like the old pseudo-family company.
Geographical and blood-related communities are Gemeinschaft. People are registered there from birth and cannot freely enter or leave. Individuals are deeply bound to that community.
Companies are Gesellschaft. They are artificially created groups, and members are bound by calculated contracts, treating each other as means.
In between, there is Genossenschaft. It is not naturally occurring like geographical or blood ties but a community established by the free will of members. Craftsmen's unions and cooperatives fall into this category.
What Gaifukan aims for is a modern Genossenschaft centered on martial arts. Disciples can join whenever they want, for whatever reason they like. They can stay as long as they want and leave whenever they want. There is only one requirement as membership: to show respect for the place called Gaifukan. Not to me as the master, but to the dojo as the place where I pass on the knowledge and techniques given to me by my master.
Gaifukan has various "clubs." The first club formed was the Konan Mahjong Federation. I am the chief, and we hold monthly meetings to compete for the annual champion. It started nearly 20 years ago when we practiced at a public martial arts hall in Ashiya City before Gaifukan was built.
Then there is the "Sudo-kai" for skiing together, the "Pilgrimage Club" visiting sacred places, the "Paradise Hiking Club" that only goes to easy places, the "School Trip Club" visiting historical spots to learn, the "Horse Riding Club" riding horses by Lake Shirakaba, and so on. Swimming at the beach is also a regular event. At the end of the year, we make mochi, and on New Year's Eve, we practice martial arts overnight and eat soba noodles to welcome the new year.
If you fully participate in these events, you might end up spending more time with Gaifukan friends than with your own family.――(Excerpt from the text)
This country's flawed system
Either exploit it, escape from it, or...
The latest volume of Uchida-style "Japanese Theory"!!
Japan has become a "restricted country" during the lost 30 years.
Problems are piling up, such as the confusion of neoliberalism, economic disparity and tax imbalance, declining birthrate and aging population, low-level politics, and scandals in major companies.
A sense of resignation is spreading throughout society, and ordinary citizens also feel the restrictions...
A warning book about the "restricted country"!
★ The disappearance of "adults"――Japan's crisis
★ The sorrow of the Japanese government watching America's mood
★ Whether to use the status of a vassal state or escape from it
★ Food culture is "security" rather than "economy"
★ Common points of Japan's "failing organizations"
★ Modern capitalism aiming for "21st-century enclosure"
★ Haruki Murakami's depiction of "things not of this world"
★ Protecting the "boundary" between nature and civilized society
★ Life is not "for problem-solving" ……etc.
In 2011, I built a dojo called Gaifukan in Kobe. The first floor is the dojo, and the second floor is my home. At the dojo, I practice several martial arts such as Aikido, Jodo, Iaido, and Shinkage-ryu, but not only that, we also hold performances of Noh, Gidayu, Kamigata dance, Rakugo, theater, Pansori, opera, and also invite people for lectures. In that respect, it is the same as a public martial arts hall or hall. The difference is that at Gaifukan, I only do what I "want to do." This is not a "rental hall."
Rather, Gaifukan is a kind of "community."
Just recently, I went swimming at the beach with my disciples. Since we were a group of about a dozen, we rented an entire inn. We spent two nights and three days swimming, having BBQs, drinking alcohol, and chatting together.
Gaifukan is supposed to be a martial arts dojo, but the concept when I created it was "a place like a Showa-era company."
Young people probably don't know anymore, but when I was a child, Japanese companies in the 1940s and 1950s all had lifetime employment and seniority-based systems. They were a kind of pseudo-family. Therefore, my father's subordinates often came to our house for meals. We played mahjong, Go, went hiking, mountain climbing, and visited the company's beach house together. I really liked that way of gathering.
However, Japanese companies later abolished lifetime employment and seniority systems as "old customs" and switched to meritocracy and ability-based systems from America. The employment style of working for one company from hiring to retirement no longer existed. At the same time, companies ceased to be pseudo-families. Originally, due to modernization and urbanization, the former geographically and blood-related communities disappeared, and the pseudo-families that barely substituted community functions also vanished, so urban residents atomized and became like grains of sand.
I thought that was not good. So, I decided to establish a community of mutual support and mutual aid once again. I wanted to recreate a "loose community" like the old pseudo-family company.
Geographical and blood-related communities are Gemeinschaft. People are registered there from birth and cannot freely enter or leave. Individuals are deeply bound to that community.
Companies are Gesellschaft. They are artificially created groups, and members are bound by calculated contracts, treating each other as means.
In between, there is Genossenschaft. It is not naturally occurring like geographical or blood ties but a community established by the free will of members. Craftsmen's unions and cooperatives fall into this category.
What Gaifukan aims for is a modern Genossenschaft centered on martial arts. Disciples can join whenever they want, for whatever reason they like. They can stay as long as they want and leave whenever they want. There is only one requirement as membership: to show respect for the place called Gaifukan. Not to me as the master, but to the dojo as the place where I pass on the knowledge and techniques given to me by my master.
Gaifukan has various "clubs." The first club formed was the Konan Mahjong Federation. I am the chief, and we hold monthly meetings to compete for the annual champion. It started nearly 20 years ago when we practiced at a public martial arts hall in Ashiya City before Gaifukan was built.
Then there is the "Sudo-kai" for skiing together, the "Pilgrimage Club" visiting sacred places, the "Paradise Hiking Club" that only goes to easy places, the "School Trip Club" visiting historical spots to learn, the "Horse Riding Club" riding horses by Lake Shirakaba, and so on. Swimming at the beach is also a regular event. At the end of the year, we make mochi, and on New Year's Eve, we practice martial arts overnight and eat soba noodles to welcome the new year.
If you fully participate in these events, you might end up spending more time with Gaifukan friends than with your own family.――(Excerpt from the text)
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