People who constantly talk about national interests, money, and cost-effectiveness are rarely any good.
Leaders should not say such things, especially in public.
However, recently, the number of such vulgar people has increased, and their greed and desire for power have created various conflicts. Furthermore, these have worsened and have created the current state of the world.
The situation is rapidly deteriorating.
On April 2nd of last year, I posted a blog entry titled “89 seconds remaining“. On April 27th of last year, I posted a blog entry titled “60 seconds?“.

People from diverse backgrounds—different countries, religions, skin colors, cultures, and more—order ceramic pieces from our website. Alternatively, some customers visit our store in Kyoto in person and purchase our artwork.
Everyone is so gentlemanly and kind, and I always feel happy and grateful.
For someone like me, who experiences such things on a daily basis, the current state of the world is incredibly sad.
Ideally, I would like to post only beautiful nature photos, beautiful pottery photos, beautiful music, and so on, and that’s what I should be posting, but as I feared, the world has become very unstable.
What will happen in the time we have left? What can we do in the time we have left?
It depends on the people mentioned in the first three lines, but according to Japanese public opinion polls, 75% of people do not support the current situation.

Personally, I’ve finished filing my tax return, and I’ll do my best to resume my regular posting tomorrow.