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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.
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far right prime minister installed in Japan
Theres another kind of Japanese PM?
Japan is a one-party state, but with typical Japanese reserve, they have one of them.
japan has democracy mtfs, should learn the one party ruled for 60 years in a so called democracy
It is so cursed that a lot of first women leader of a country is a chud. Thatcher, Çiller, Meloni and now Takaichi.
South Korea says hello as well!
And Hillary AND Kamala if either of them won, which is kind of funny.
It says more about the average human being a CHUD (if not by their nature, their nurturing) than about women but it is cursed, yes
It says more about the average human being a CHUD (if not by their nature, their nurturing) than about women
You’re right it doesn’t say anything at all about women, but it doesn’t say anything about the average human as being a chud either. All it says is that in liberal “democracies” the only individuals who are allowed to rule are the ones who will put the bourgeois class interests first. It doesn’t matter if the average human is a chud, a lib, a social democrat, or a commie - no one elected is getting that power if they aren’t sufficiently sycophants of capital.
I don’t think it’s much of a coincidence. Seems fairly certain a woman has to be extra fascist to be forgiven for being a woman by the very misogynistic bourgeoisie.
It would absolutely not surprise me if the first woman president of the US ends up being some MTG-type Republican.
hillary would have absolutely nuked Iran by now
My two predictions for Hillary’s presidency were: 1) a new war she could “win” quickly, and 2) a new social program to put her name on. You could just tell that she wanted to go into the history books.
Tokenism at its finest.
Weidel coming soon
Well she wouldnt be the first.
brb resurrecting the RAF
Çiller was an agent of the NATO installed by US.
I believe this is what is called by many ‘girlboss fascism’.
Just… disappointing, is all.
pro war? lol what, they barely have a military.
I also dont know Japan politics well. Is liberal democratic just some bullshit or is their right wing party still basically Biden?
The position of Japan’s far right is basically that Imperial Japan is cool and good and, at worst, maybe just had a heated gamer moment here and there but they still need to return to a similar paradigm with an independent military and even fewer compunctions about their old war crimes. They are fascist freaks with an alarming degree of support and every propensity to lay the groundwork for repetitions of Nanjing and Unit 731.
even fewer compunctions about their old war crimes.
Japan has compunctions about their old war crimes? Can’t imagine what an even more war crimes-denying Japan would be like
One of the goals of the Japanese far-right is to amend the constitution to give themselves an army capable of offensive wars.
Sure, why not, it’s not like they have a giant next door with a understandable huge thirst for
revanchismrevenge*You are using the term “revanchism” incorrectly.
Revanchism refers to seeking a revision or reversal of the outcome of a defeat in a war, such as through regaining lost territories or undoing a humiliation. Japan was the defeated power in the war with China. Japan is the revanchist power in this situation. China has no reason for revanchism, they were the winners of WWII and, at least formally, got all their territories back.
Ok, but the war crimes scoreboard is on the side of Japan
China has no intention or desire to try to equalize that score. All they want is an apology and recognition of the crimes.
On a realistic note, is there an official redline from China about Japan’s offensive military capabilities?
Japan “got away” with assisting the Great Satan in Iraq and Afghanistan, they seem to want to chain themselves to the US in this second cold war, plus the mentioned “we did nothing wrong” official policy, plus the “one-screwdriver-turn” away from having nukes.
On a realistic note, is there an official redline from China about Japan’s offensive military capabilities?
No. And the US wouldn’t take such a line seriously as it’s unlikely China would either.
In the past crossing China’s red lines meant being snubbed for diplomatic visits, some not picking up phone calls, reduced counter-narcotics coordination, and angry military drills around Taiwan and absolutely nothing else of serious consequence. The trade war has China tit for tatting the US with export restrictions but that’s not as a result of crossing red lines on geopolitical issues that displease China but as a direct response to economic attacks. The US has a history of crossing China’s red lines on Taiwan in particular. China draws one, US steps over it, China gets angry, acts coldly towards the US and eventually after a few years goes back to normal after some gesture move from the US on unrelated matters or some formal statement with no teeth.
Fact is Japan is a US vassal, a directly occupied vassal and has been since WW2 and a key part of US power projection in Asia. If it’s in the US interests to have Japan re-arm and say “we are doing this to mass murder Chinese people soon” then that’s what will happen. China may express displeasure by slapping on trade sanctions on Japan and allow and encourage protests in China against Japan and so on but they’re not going to strike Japan first because militarily striking Japan would be tantamount to militarily striking the US as they have a joint defense agreement. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_and_Security_between_the_United_States_and_Japan )
At this time in China’s long-game plans they have no interest in engaging in warfare with the US.
I don’t think they gonna get it unless using the USSR method
They’re gonna get nuked again?
This is one of the positions among Japan’s New Left after WWII and why they gained popularity. Japan’s far-right government started a war they couldn’t win, predicated on the enslavement and colonization of their neighbors, only to result in the country’s destruction and getting two nuclear bombs dropped on them. They gained nothing out of the war except occupation by a foreign army from the other side of the world and millions of dead bodies. Reactionary politics is not good for Japan seeing as how it led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki with many more cities firebombed.
The right-wing chuds see WWII as something they should try again, but this time they’ll totally win, despite the countries they invaded last time having better armies and military technology that has outpaced Japan. Surely their small-ass island nation with a declining population can take on China (which is not in the middle of a civil war and has nukes), both halves of Korea (which are at a stalemate and have done nothing but build up their militaries for the last 50 years), the Philippines (which is not in ruins from fighting two superpowers in a row), and Vietnam (who have done nothing but win wars since they won the last war they fought against Japan).
pro war? lol what, they barely have a military.
Its called the
IJSDF and it does rank reality high on global power scaling, however its mainly conceptualized as support for the us forces in asia.They have the 8th largest military in the world when ranked by firepower. They are just constitutionally restricted to “defense”, but it is a crucial component of the US cold war on China.
It’s a nationalist right-wing party. I’d say much worse than Biden or other US Democrats since they don’t even have that veneer of appearing ”woke”.
They have 5 times the active personnel as australia. Japan always had strong nazi tendency, remember?
”Old far-right prime minister replaced with new far-right prime minister”
Wasn’t the old one just parachuted there by a cult?
You referring to
assassinating former prime minister Abe? Yes, although since Abe’s resignation in 2020, Japan’s already 4 prime ministers later.Postwar Japan is often described as a one and a half party state — there’s the right wing LDP and everyone else that is the opposition government, so there’s right wingers in power literally all the time.
I mean its still the imperial state innit? The shishis
I guess into the Taisho period they were integrating themselves into the newly forming political parties so that wouldn’t be too shocking but I want to know how much the events surrounding WW2 affected or didn’t affect that
It’s okay the anime and video games will make up for the workers being put into a meat grinder.
Without a hint of irony.
Sorry, all I care about is that she’s a woman and a drummer. That’s too cool to be bad.
Omg add Blinken and milei and we’ve got a rock banddddd 
