Well, there are many things inspiring me now. I do think that Tokyo and Japan in particular—Japan generally, and Tokyo specifically—is going through a remarkable phase of renewal because they have all the enabling conditions. Their young people are thoroughly non-partisan. Because they have a shrinking population, like a reverse pyramid, the young people also feel there’s no way they can outvote the senior people because there just aren’t many of them around. They increasingly feel that they have all the right directions figured out—they’re very smart—but the existing political apparatus simply does not provide the cover to listen. So I was speaking to the third-party leader in Japan who really got this prominent position now because neither of the two main parties has an overall majority. So they’re the kingmakers, similar to Taiwan in the constituency sense. And he completely endorsed the “Anno stack,” as we call it. So it has the political conditions now nationally, as well as in the city realm.

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