“Finally, I must say that today’s Japanese politics is money politics — it is plutocracy. This injustice must be corrected. In our country’s politics, enormous sums of money are spent on elections. Once elected, politicians scramble for vested interests to recover that money. Sometimes this even leads to the exercise of command authority. The person who collects the most money becomes party president, and the party president becomes Prime Minister. That is the mechanism we have today.”