Takuro Morinaga’s Cry of the Soul: “I’m not dead yet! Japanese stocks will crash soon!”
Takuro Morinaga, who announced his stage 4 pancreatic cancer last December, talks about his "present" and "the future of Japan" in the midst of his battle with the disease.
I can’t die until I finish it.”
The book is a sequel to “Zaimu Shinrikyō,” published last year, in which he criticizes the media’s failure to report the truth because they are too discerning toward politicians, bureaucrats, and even entertainment professionals, and he reveals the reasons for this in a candid manner.
The first issue of the magazine was released on March 7. The president of the publisher said, ‘As expected, I was shaken’ because the first printing had a circulation of 40,000 copies (laughs), but the book has already been reprinted four times and now has 75,000 copies. (Laughs.) Doctors say that no one has ever died from eating the book (laughs). (Laughs.) On the other hand, if you lose hope for life, or a sense of mission, you will die. In other words, the moment you think, “Enough is enough,” that is the end. I couldn’t die because I had a strong desire to publish this book no matter what. When you have nothing in your heart, you tend to think, ‘I don’t care if I die already. So it’s better to have that kind of support.”
