Today, Japan’s House of Representatives is dissolved, and a general election begins.
Whether the dissolution itself was right or wrong is debatable. But what lingers more strongly is not the argument—it is the unease about what comes after.
Today marks the dissolution of Japan’s House of Representatives and the start of a general election.
There are, of course, many opinions about whether dissolving the Diet was appropriate. That debate is unavoidable.
Still, when I think about what comes after the election, I cannot help but feel uneasy.
We are repeatedly told about “a bright future” and “hope” by every political party. Yet such words are, by nature, uncertain. A promising future is not something that can be guaranteed to everyone.
This is not about which party or which policy is right or wrong.
No policy is perfect. None can satisfy everyone.
Inevitably, dissatisfaction emerges. It grows louder, amplified, and politics becomes unstable.
Starting over again and again leads nowhere—but for some politicians, moments of instability become opportunities: a debut, or a comeback.
Japan’s so-called “lost thirty years” owe much to long-standing ruling-party politics.
At the same time, responsibility also lies with those who failed to form a credible alternative.
In the end, no one truly took responsibility.
That is the political reality of this country.
Still, perhaps politicians everywhere are much the same. They are born from society itself, after all—human, all too human.
It is only one vote.
But how that vote is used is the one thing I want to keep certain.
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