On YouTube, I watched,

"What is Queen Elizabeth's hostage?　What does the Queen say about Brexit?"

It was, in short,

"Hostility between the Royal Family and Parliament"

the "stylized beauty" or "templating" that had been going on for hundreds of years.

It was very, very interesting.

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Recently, I have been writing quite a bit about His Majesty the Emperor and the Emperor System, despite the fact that my family and other people have told me not to mention the Imperial Family.

They are about "quantifying and showing the Emperor's strenuous work through numbers" or "evaluating the emperor system from a systems perspective.

In particular, about this column, I had prepared a title

"The emperor system is a blockchain"

So, in a nutshell, here are the opinions and impressions of my family and others who have read the drafts of these columns

"Lack of respect"

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However, from the perspective of this "quantification" and "system evaluation".

"For the first time in my life, I was able to study a large amount about the imperial family and the emperor system and deeply understand its significance"

And today, I have been listening to

"The Emperor's New Year Video Message"

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As a matter of fact, I believe I understand what my family and other people are saying.

This is a criticism to me,

"Ebata, can't you confirm the existence of love without calculating it and evaluating it as a system?"

(In the case of the Imperial Family in Japan, I think the word is "respect" rather than "love".)

I think this criticism makes a lot of sense, and I can accept it.

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However, my days as a teenager and in college were not very relevant to most people.

like this one,

or this one.

I think that this in itself was a blessing for me.

However, it was very difficult for me to come to accept the "respect" that most Japanese people have naturally acquired like their breathing.

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"From Computation and System Evaluation to Respect.

I thought that people like this were in the minority -- or rather, I thought, "There is no one else but me.

However, watching the "What is Queen Elizabeth's hostage?　What does the Queen say about Brexit?" at the beginning, I'm beginning to think, "Maybe not so much.

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My thoughts may not reach "many people," but they may reach those who think the same way I do.

I myself think it is safe to say that I am one of them.

Rather, I am aware that I am "one of them," and I am going to write a lot of columns this year too.

Happy New Year to you all.