When he surrendered to the United States, Emperor Hirohito told his people to "bear the unbearable, tolerate the intolerable." Now I know the message was neither for the people at that time nor for their children (Baby Boom Generation), but for their grandchildren (Generation Y). They, also known as the Employment Ice Age or Lost Generation, were not given jobs because of
the labour law that protects the older unfairly, and so have been forced to be too poor to have their babies. That is that their children couldn't even come to the world!
堪え難きを堪え、忍び難きを忍び… 当時の国民でなく、すぐに生まれて来る子供たち(団塊世代)でもなく、その子供たち(団塊ジュニア世代)へのメッセージだったんだな、彼らの子供たちは世に存在することさえできなかったという。