[Part 2: Conclusion] The Kasumigaseki Legions: Why Elite Bureaucrats are Just Roman Centurions Chasing Tribute

 Long ago, when indigenous people in Southeast Asia first encountered white colonizers, it is said they worshipped them as "shining gods." However, one day, the local leaders peeked behind the curtain of this divine facade. They saw that these "gods" had the exact same reproductive organs when they had sex, and excreted the exact same waste when they hid in the bushes to relieve themselves. The leaders realized: "Wait, they are exactly the same as us."

In modern Japan, the central government ministries—specifically the Ministry of Education (MEXT) and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)—are playing the exact role of these "shining gods." When they line up sweet-sounding phrases like "international contribution" and "solving labor shortages," we citizens are easily tricked into the illusion that they are benevolent deities working for the greater good. But peel off that gold plating, and what emerges is not a god, but a ruthless Roman Centurion, commanding a bureaucratic legion and scrambling to collect "tribute" (new customers) to feed his troops.

■ Legio MEXT & Legio MHLW: The Conquest for "New Demographics" Legio MEXT (The Ministry of Education) imports foreign students as "auxiliary troops" to prevent universities from going bankrupt due to Japan's declining birthrate. Legio MHLW (The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) invites foreign workers and their families as "new recruits" to prevent the shrinking of the social security budget, immediately granting them access to the Empire's pension and nursing care treasury.

At first glance, these two military campaigns seem unrelated. However, they share the exact same underlying logic of Roman military administration: Securing the Spoils of War (Budget).

  • Feeding the Legion: Without students, the subsidies managed by MEXT will shrink. Without insured workers, the special accounts (the imperial treasury) of MHLW will diminish. For the Centurions of Kasumigaseki, a shrinking market means the starvation and disbandment of their own Legion.

  • No "Bread and Circuses" for the Conquered: The only difference between them and private companies is that the ministries hold a monopoly on "state power." The existing customers—the Japanese citizens—are like conquered plebeians, already chained by the strict laws of the Empire. No matter how heavy the tuition fees become, or how crushing the pension and insurance tributes get, the citizens cannot flee. Therefore, the Centurions feel zero need to improve services or offer any rewards to them. The fish are already in the net.


■ Tear Down the "SPQR" Banner of Authority Just because they march under the prestigious banner of a "Government Ministry" does not mean we should bow to them blindly. What they are actually doing is an unsustainable administrative scheme: draining the granaries of their conquered subjects (Japanese citizens) to hand out signing bonuses to foreign mercenaries, all just to maintain the sheer size and power of their bureaucratic legions.

Behind beautiful rhetoric like "humanitarianism" and "diversity," these modern Centurions are running cold calculations to secure their Amakudari (post-retirement villas and estates) and protect the prosperity of their military districts. Just like the colonizers hiding in the bushes to relieve themselves, the true nature of these elites is simply primitive organizational self-defense.

Only when we realize this fact can we finally wake up from the illusion of a "benevolent Empire" and look directly at our grim reality: we are the ones being forced to pay the upkeep for their ever-expanding mercenary armies.

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