Shinji Ishimaru also cried] The “God of Election,” who had fought with guerrillas and passed away suddenly, spoke of the “eye of the typhoon” in this summer’s Upper House election.

The days of his youth, full of fights

After asking Mr. Fujikawa about the political situation before his death, we sometimes talked about his younger days. When he was a student, Mr. Fujikawa was a “staunch right-winger,” and if he heard the word “emperor” spoken from the seat next to him in a coffee shop, he would approach and say, “You mean ‘His Majesty the Emperor,’ don’t you?

He was a far-right student and often got into fights. When I was a student, I was like ‘Patchugi! I was like ‘Patchugi! Mr. Fujikawa smiled smugly.

Patchugi! (directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu, released in 2005) is a love story about a Japanese high school student who falls in love with the sister of a Korean high school gang leader and overcomes ethnic barriers. While the script was praised, the fight and brawl scenes were also highlights of the film. When Fujikawa was a junior and senior high school student in the 1960s, Japan was in the midst of a long war between North Vietnam and the United States, and the country was in turmoil.

His hometown was Senbayashi in Asahi-ku, Osaka, and his alma mater, Omiya Junior High School, was a rough school with almost all the glass broken, and some students wore the white run. His mother ran a coffee shop, and he served his fellow students without permission or ate at a local okonomiyaki restaurant on the tab, and his mother almost disowned him several times (laughter).

When he entered high school, he joined the Japan Students League, an ethnic student organization, and served as its representative in Osaka Prefecture. Riding the Keihan train while playing military songs on a boom box, students from the Korean High School would get involved. We used to fight a lot. After getting beaten up, I always went to thank them. We would ride into the Chosun High School. If you don’t go, you will be bullied. I had no choice but to go and pay my respects.”

This may be a bit exaggerated, but it is a “chivalrous story” like a delinquent comic book. As a far-right student, Fujikawa entered Kokushikan University.

At the university, where the president rode a white horse, he developed a passion for the country. There was also a son of a yakuza boss, and we had many heated discussions about the Emperor System. I can’t go into details, but he helped me many times after that.”

After dropping out of Kokushikan University, he worked for a time in the private sector, but “I was fired from three companies in one year,” he said.

He gave up working in the private sector after he “beat up the section manager at his first brokerage firm, beat up the general manager at his second commodity trading firm, and beat up the general manager at his third financial consultant firm.”