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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    2 days ago

    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.