"Words are emotional, cruel, and sometimes powerless. But we still believe in the power of words"

It was the Asahi Shimbun (newspaper company) that said.

I remember it very well because it was a very unpleasant phrase.

I don't believe in the power of the Asahi Shimbun, but I do know the power of words, and I know that we need the power to counter the power of words.

I was reminded of this while watching

the BS1 special "The Magic of Hitler's Speeches".

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I listened carefully to the findings of a Japanese researcher who was analyzing 1.5 million words of Hitler's speeches for big data, and moved deeply,

"Speech" is a very advanced skill.

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I have a basic distrust of politicians who show leadership in their speeches.

My wife is unhappy with our country's current prime minister, saying, 'Can't he send out a more powerful message to lead the people in this corona disaster?'

However, I think it is much scarier that someone will appear who will "politically exploit" such a "corona disaster.

So, personally, I support the stance of the current Prime Minister, who is trying not to send out a strong message(?) (no matter what his policies are) -- I mean that seriously, without 1mm of sarcasm.

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I am an engineer, researcher, and writer.

My ideas that started out as hypotheses often turned out to be wrong in the verification phase.

To be honest, I think half of them are wrong.

It is my job to keep making mistakes. That's why I don't hesitate to apologize if I admit I made a mistake. I don't think it's uncool.

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It is the job of newspapers to continue to report the facts as they are, and not to be cowed by power.

Of course, there may be messages (so-called "power") in them, but I don't want to read "arbitrary messages," at least not in my mind.

I believe that the "power" of Hitler's reality is more credible than the "power" of the ideals of the Asahi Shimbun.

I believe that my "hypothesis-testing engineering approach" is much more "clean" -- or rather, "less damaging" -- than the Asahi Shimbun's "disgusting, sickening sense of justice".