How is the japanese far-right not staunchly anti-american? Make some damn sense.

japanese people have been completely checked out on politics since the 90s recession but I really don’t blame them. There’s nothing to hope for. The LDP has had such a stranglehold on governance that opposition parties effectively act in coordination with them. The opposition parties have long since been little vassals with the strongest disagreement usually coming from the centrists and centrist leaning social democrats. So while I am disappointed seeing younger japanese people leap headfirst into crypto-fascist nationalism, I mean I can’t say I’m too surprised given the landscape. Younger people aren’t offered anything else and have been told to eat shit, go to work, keep your head down, never retire. Like the closest thing to grassroots political organizing that Japan has had in decades was Shinzo Abe getting ventilated.

There was some amount of interest in the whole Chuudou Kaikaku thing, the merger with CDP and Komeito, but that seems like it was just cobbling together any sort of response to how popular Takaichi is. She’s got a genuine fandom in Japan in a grim sort of mirror to Trump’s popularity. This is one of the first times I’ve seen younger people give a shit about the national diet. I know there are cool Japanese people, like they do have (comparatively) strong labor protections largely due to union activity. And yeah this was bound to happen because there’s a lot more immigration into Japan in recent years, and the yen is floundering with inflation. This was bound to result in a reactionary resurgence if there wasn’t a viable left wing opposition, which there never really has been. I think this should be a lesson that in the absence of anything else, absence of viable working class organization, that western-aligned liberal democracies will naturally gravitate towards reaction when there are economic issues such as labor shortages and inflation.

I mean furthermore the western powers want someone like Takaichi because they want someone to be a bullwark against China, and she’s a fascist lunatic so I guess she works

Japan is the Britain of Asia, shit island that spread misery and destruction around the region and now it’s in a terminal crisis.

Wonder what her views ar-

Takaichi’s views have been variously described as conservative or ultraconservative. Her domestic policy includes support for proactive government spending and continuing Abenomics. She has taken conservative positions on social issues, such as opposition to same-sex marriage, to the recognition of separate surnames for spouses, and to female succession to the Japanese throne. She supports revising Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan – which renounces the use of military force – has a pro-Taiwanese foreign policy, and supports strengthening the US–Japan alliance. A member of the far-right Nippon Kaigi, she has been described as holding revisionist views of Japan’s conduct during the Second World War, and criticised the Murayama and Kono statements which apologised for Japanese war crimes.

Oh, demonic, cool.

Wow, japan elects ldp, must be last 80years

she appears to have essentially revitalized the public popularity of the LDP, japan’s long-time ruling party. the youngs find her quirky apparently. both the left wing parties, JCP and reiwa got fucking owned, like no seats, even the incel fascist party performed better.

It really wasn’t much of a gamble, more of an obvious low risk high reward power grab, the result was not in doubt. Hence Takaichi calling the snap election herself. The lower estimations of Takaichi’s approval rating were around 60%. That would be a worse case scenario and still a majority. On the high end, she was looking at close to 80%. Final results for her coalition will likely be in between that, leaning towards the high end.

Puts on Nikkei