“As a result of politics moving by money in this way, a mood of ‘anything goes if you have money’ fills society. Hope and ideals disappear, and a hand-to-mouth, live-for-the-day attitude prevails. The number of crimes has risen more than tenfold compared to prewar times, and juvenile problems in particular have become a source of worry for parents with children of that age. The government talks about moral education or revising the Fundamental Law of Education, but what is really needed is to correct the fundamental distortion in politics.”