this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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People in Japan have been so clocked out of politics for the past 50 years that they look at Takaichi and only think "oh she's a woman and she likes Japan in like an aggressive military sort of way, that's cool and new." Because that's enough of a difference for average Japanese people to actually care.
Also Japan is undergoing a kind of parallel to 2016 where alienated young people are becoming reactionaries because there's simply no organized alternative, because politics in Japan are the avenue of the elderly and crackpots.
'I want something new in politics so I'll vote for a candidate from the LDP, the party that's been in power for over 94% of our modern state's existence'
Yeah but it's a really weird and openly racist woman this time instead of a boring old man.