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- world@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
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.
”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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishi_(Japan)
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