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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!

Takaichi has been described as holding hard-line conservative and Japanese nationalist views,

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citing former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a role model and deeply influential on her personal political beliefs.

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Like Thatcher, she is called the "Iron Lady".

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Takaichi is a member of Nippon Kaigi, a far-right ultraconservative organisation

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that argues for a reinterpretation of Japanese history

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amongst ultranationalist lines.

WELP

Oof. Well, 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.

Voters: Living expenses are too high, yen is weak and imports are expensive, we are suffering

Also voters: Let's make the status quo stronger

For those who don't know who the fuck she is, she is a ultranationalist conservative that worships Hitler.

She wasn't gambling. This wasn't a huge risk. Big news outlets have become dinosaurs struggling to understand a new world. Her team calculated this win using modern viral social media strategies and polling metrics. It's not just gEnZ that is swayed by social media. Wake up NBCeeple; the Trump virus hath spread.

Enjoy your flavor of authoritarian rule with an ultra nationalist regime Japan. Hope voting for a personality was worth it. Pray you'll have elections come next time cause they're going to be "fraudulent" with a need to be "reformed"

I'm also expecting the Japanese animation studios are going to be more muzzled with their content and LGBTQ if any will be shown now

I may be overreacting, but as an American, everything I said has happened here

we're all so fucked. ppl are morons.

Currently, in Japan, it is a major issue that her party’s video has been viewed 160 million times on YouTube. Of course, the majority of those views are thought to have been for advertising purposes.

She is a far-right politician who advocates “countermeasures against foreigners,” but she paid a large sum of money to Google, a foreign tech giant, to win the election.

At the very least, online election advertising will likely be an issue for discussion in the upcoming Diet session.

Cancelling my vacation to Japan.

I'll go somewhere that's not run by fascists instead.

japan is fucked up

Takaichi is known for favouring proactive government spending. She supports heavy government investment in critical strategic sectors in what she refers to as "crisis management investment". These include artificial intelligence, semiconductors, nuclear fusion, biotechnology, and defence.

Her other policies aside, the economic one looks like a winner.

I'm really curious if Japan will manage to outwork their population collapse. Maybe if all of them can work 20 hours a day like their leader they will do just fine without immigrants?

Welcome to the party Japan! You’re gonna regret this in about 4-6 months after it’s to late…

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP; Japanese: 自由民主党, romanized: Jiyū-Minshutō), also known as Jimintō (自民党), is a major conservative[14] and nationalist[15] political party in Japan.

I'm so fucking confused. This is why Japan's population is in decline.

Bruh

Terrible but expected news.

Why are the Japanese leaning ultra-nationalist conservative?

I kind of get it in the States. The US has always leaned fundamentalist religious and more conservo-libertarian, more skeptical of federal government.

I kind of get it elsewhere, like the UK or Brazil.

But Japan? I thought they were… more urban? I thought work burnout + a population age cliff was their existential crisis, so why would they vote for less immigration and less control over that, unless I’m misunderstanding the platform?