[Look, Japan was on the verge of destruction in his time, he has the right to be concerned about this fact.]

...Change is not bad in and of itself.

[His Japan is a Japan in the midst of some crazy change, but he can't say he's defending his country if he dismisses the country it's starting to become.]

Though this future in particular is not one I would like to see. A tyrannical force like this does not deserve to be in power.