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The vote will decide all 465 seats in parliament’s lower house and mark Takaichi’s first electoral test since becoming nation’s first female leader.

By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies

Japan’s Prime Minister ⁠Sanae Takaichi has ​said she ‍will dissolve parliament ‍on Friday ⁠and call a general election ​to ‌seek voter backing for her ‌spending ‌plans and ⁠other policies.

The snap election announcement on Monday comes just three months into her tenure as the nation’s first female prime minister. ……

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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why? I know little about Japanese internal politics.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Takaichi is very right wing, against immigration, you know, the usual conservative bullshit. Meanwhile the population is collapsing and their GDP with it.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Takaichi is very right wing, against immigration

Japan has been anti-immigration for the last 300 years. Rural towns have an average age of 80.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Japan was even against international trade (besides with China and the Dutch in one city) for the same amount of time until America forced them to open up.

[–] ag10n@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Japan was not completely isolated under the sakoku policy, but strict regulations were applied to commerce and foreign relations by the shogunate and by certain feudal domains (han)

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-worldhistory/chapter/27-2-2-isolationism-in-the-edo-period/

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The immigration part isn't new, but her economic stance... she has said Margret Thatcher is an inspiration. It's just that bad. Her views on gender are also quite backwards, which is ironic given she's the first female Japanese PM.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Japan and korea have both always been very anti immigration. They've famously taken in zero (or next to it) asylum seekers as well.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Japan loves facism

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i think japan will do what america says until anyone else could or would protect them from china

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

This has nothing to do with the US, it just rhymes with current US politics.