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“Japanese social transparency is getting better compared with former times.” I have often heard those opinion from the people involved in the business world and the political world for about 30 years. I have had no opportunity to see transfer of the money which does not see the reason at all and the unknown money like a bolt from the blue. I thought that it may have been the fair society because it is difficult to carry out corruption.

On the other hand, when we see the darkness of Olympic corruption, I would like to rethink that the fair society is only misconception. Because of 30 years lost in Japan, the financial conditions have beenre getting worse so that it may have just seemed fair.
Seeing the arrested peoples, they are the aged people in 70 -80’s. They did not know that Japanese society became transparent and fair so that they run recklessly by the once Showa enthusiasm, and possibly dug their own grave. If so, the pathology which Olympic corruption exposed is called the old fart damage.

Olympic corruption is needed to inspect once whether it is the incident which the opacity of society caused or whether it is the incident which old damage invited.

I suppose that it is that of the old fart damage.
Japan is the aged society and the majority is aged people.
It is sure the aged people = the old fart damage is not materialized.

But the establishment of structure which deters the old fart damage is hard work. It is already known that it is hard to demand consciousness reform and behavior modification from aged people. Its way will be forced by the majority even if it is going to decide something. It is the so-called dilemma of democracy.
Probably, the essential qualities of Olympic corruption is hidden around here.

Kei Kitajima