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Hmm, I just realized that I (an American living in New Zealand) have no idea what Japanese politics are like. To Wikipedia!
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Eh, I guess it had to happen to Japan someday. It's happened everywhere else. Here's hoping it doesn't last long and the damage is minimal.
Fascism? In my anti-communism?!
TBF fascism never really stopped in Japan. The American occupation was so clueless it changed very little of what Japan was before; the elites just kind of divided into nominal parties.
Clueless or intentional?
Clueless.
Hanlon's razor. Also, how great a cultural understanding would you expect 1940's America to develop?
& @hark@lemmy.world please educate me and CanadaPlus how we are clueless on fascist praxies of 🇯🇵, seeing as I begrudgingly live here.
You completely misunderstood. They said Clueless to point out that it was the US in the post-war who were clueless and not them calling you a name
Lol, k.
and the biggest communist agitator died at a quite convienent time
That's disappointing, but good to know. Thanks.
Yes, it is. America really biffed it, and the nuking a couple cities thing wasn't great either.
Now, that's not to say Japanese democracy is fake. The elections are real, and AFAIK the parties have gradually taken on real ideological differences. It does help explain why they're broadly racist, still not sorry about WWII and have a lot of regional vote buying with projects, though.
Edit: Not great women's rights either, ironically.
Pretty decent summary of American history, that. With few exceptions.
Here's another fact you may not want to know (the reptile in the image is Sanae.)
The context in Japanese:https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2014/10/21/hitlersenkyo_n_6019042.html
Oh!
Cool!
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Hey look at it this way, we may finally get our mechs out of this.
I mean, they may be the last thing you see, but at least we may see them.
shes the japanese margeret thatcher, doing her duty for "empress and empire of the rising sun"
Said to be a former heavy metal drummer.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WvfplA3a02g
I do have to say that 80s Japan included some edgy subcultures involving Nazi fetishization.
Maybe Japan gets a situation like NZ where the conservitve parties and "the right" like National and Act would probably be left of the USA Democrats on the political spectrum. I can hope right?
Also reducing all politics to a left right thing is so stupid and probably the worst thing to do for political discourse but... here we are. I blame the murdoch media
Unfortunately not. Japan has been very far-right (bordering on jingoistic) for a long time now. The country’s external facade is all cute anime characters and zany fashion… But that was an intentional rebrand (heavily subsidized by the country’s propaganda department) in the wake of WW2 to distance itself from the atrocities they had committed. But internally, the country has remained extremely hardline conservative and xenophobic. And it has only shifted farther right with recent elections.
Yeah, they also get the Mainland Chinese wolf-warriors frothing in the mouth who would love turning Yasukuni Shrine into a mountain of matchsticks.
And after the war USA nudged Japan right with anything they could think of for good measure, to shape it in their own image.
To be fair, that is almost exactly why I moved here. Luxon seems like a somewhat worthless lump, but his most extreme position appears to be a bit further left than Elizabeth Warren. And it's not impossible that he won't survive the year in his role.
Absolutely agree. I hate that my first reaction to every conversation has to be "...but are they a fascist?"
It more accurately happens like every second or third PM and then things swing to another faction of the LDP (or, historically rarely since WWII ended, another party though the last times that happened they faceplanted pretty quickly and it went back to the LDP)