In the past few days, I have been dismissed from the Tokyo Olympics project just a few days before the event, citing past perpetrators of bullying and gaffes.

By the way, I don't want to defend the "perpetrators" in the slightest, but I do feel that this is a terrible inconvenience for the project team and for the Japanese nation.

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I once wrote about how almost 100% of perpetrators are completely unaware that they are perpetrators.

I also wrote that the easiest way to avoid becoming a perpetrator of power harassment is to avoid being in a position of power.

This means that living and acting normally, with or without malice, might be itself a perpetrator's behavior -- depending, of course, on the severity of the problem.

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As I watched the above news, I wondered idly, 'There will come a day when I will be criticized as a perpetrator and dragged down from whatever I am.

Whenever I write a column or other piece, I try to be very careful, but I'm sure I'm not perfect.

Above all, we cannot compete with the "attack from the future, when values will change.

In such a case, I would "apologize" and "step down" at the level of lightning speed after being convinced.

However, I also believe that I will never make a fake apology or retire just to escape the flames.