Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
#TokyoTempo Some public discourse in Japan has romanticized Sanae Takaichi's push for a "normal nation" as a kind of "Odyssean homecoming". But rewriting historical memory, ceding military sovereignty and hollowing out Japan's pacifist Constitution are the very opposite of the Odyssean spirit.
#Odysseus returned home carrying with him the lessons of war. Japan's current course is set for the opposite direction — toward an abyss with a rewritten past in hand.
A nation that refuses to confront its past will never find its true way home.
#TokyoTempo Some public discourse in Japan has romanticized Sanae Takaichi's push for a "normal nation" as a kind of "Odyssean homecoming". But rewriting historical memory, ceding military sovereignty and hollowing out Japan's pacifist Constitution are the very opposite of the Odyssean spirit.
#Odysseus returned home carrying with him the lessons of war. Japan's current course is set for the opposite direction — toward an abyss with a rewritten past in hand.
A nation that refuses to confront its past will never find its true way home.
