Random observations from a Parisian in Tokyo: It's Tokyo prefecture governor election this weekend, and some candidates are just memes. (jlai.lu)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by oce@jlai.lu to c/france@jlai.lu

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There's a Samurai and a Joker. The joker says he wants to legalize cannabis and rename the Shibuya district to "drug-addict" district.
As far as I understand, Japanese people are fairly politically apathetic and abstention is very high.

Edit: governor, not mayor.

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[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

Votez pour 安野貴博! (n° 13) (Takahiro Anno?) il veut mettre Tokyo sous le contrôle d'une IA et a son manifeste sur github!

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

He takes issues and PRs, it seems. https://github.com/takahiroanno2024/election2024

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago

https://github.com/takahiroanno2024/election2024/issues/121 for sure. Those stupid mosquito things still feel like someone is poking my brain with a screwdriver when I walk by.

Not that I could vote even if I did still live in Tokyo. A couple of areas allow for foreign PR holders to vote for local things, but Tokyo does not allow it for the metro level.

I don't really know this guy's politics, but it is interesting to see what issues people are opening. Of course, it will only show a subset of even eligible voters, but it's still neat to read through and see what various constituents are thinking.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I know nothing about the samurai guy but I hope he loses. Japanese Nationalism is a serious issue.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 5 points 5 months ago

As best I can tell, the samurai guy shares a name with one of the legendary 47 ronin and often leads a procession about it. It's hard to find actual policy positions.

https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/305992 mentions a couple things.

https://onodera.akogishi.com/rinen/ appears to be the party platform which is ... odd. The filial piety/loyalty thing is a big yikes for me in most interpretations, but maybe it's more innocent than I'm reading into it (it is pretty vague in at least the couple minutes I had to poke around).

[-] Klaq@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

Entre Moon et Nippon Kaigi, le Japon c'est aussi un badtrip permanent.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

There are vans with speakers shouting political slogans including the pro-emperor xenophobic nationalists. I was very surprised that this practice is allowed in the country of politeness.

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