On Tuesday, Japan’s parliament installed Sanae Takaichi, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as prime minister. The elevation to power of this ultra-nationalist, pro-war figure comes with a new ruling coalition that is rapidly pushing establishment politics even further to the right.
Good to know Japan is just as stupid as the rest of us 🫠
At the end of the day this is just another right wing conservative politician in the same right wing conservative party that’s been ruling Japan for almost the entire time since 1955.
Japanese people are currently protesting against immigration… while having one of the lowest immigrant count as % of population, and solely depending on that for any gain in population. So yeah, Japan isn’t looking to bright right now. But then again, it’s the same country that has been deliberately designing suggestive outfits for schoolgirls for decades. I imagine Japanese and American government officials are good pals.
I love how the definition and use of the word “Liberal” varies so much across the world.
Not that long ago, the commoners didn’t have many rights all over the world. A party asking for checks to the power of the emperor seems downright liberal in that world. LDP stayed mostly the same (maybe moving a bit to the right), but the world kept moving to the left and now they are a right wing party.
Check out North Korea’s formal name.
Is it true she said japan did nothing wrong during WW2?
I don’t think that’s an uncommon view in Japan? Germany educated their people about the horrors and made sure to show nazis in a negative light. Japan didn’t do any of that AFAIK? They even kept emperor Hirohito.
Yeah that’s my understanding roughly.
What the fuck. Will do some reading on this. I was under the impression they denounced ala Germany but I never really looked into that specific thing.
They promote it/have a bunch of memorials.
wow. that’s crazy.
The taught their schoolchildren that they’re liberators during WW2. It led to some funny interactions between hololive JP and ID members during Indonesia’s independence day.
Is there a way I can find out who the Socialist Equality Party candidates are in my area?
It’s kind of tough to have a functional democracy, free from fascist politicians, while also being a vassal to the American Empire.
