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Why a 'mini Trump' is breaking through in Japan Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya.

The right-wing populist party Sanseito made big strides in parliamentary elections in Japan, capitalizing on concerns about the economy, immigration and overtourism.

More voters here are embracing an idea inspired by their longtime ally the United States: “Japanese first.”

The nationalist slogan helped the right-wing populist party Sanseito make big gains in Japan’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, as it capitalized on economic malaise and concerns about immigration and overtourism.

Though Japan has long had a complex relationship with foreigners and its cultural identity, experts say Sanseito’s rise is another indication of the global shift to the right embodied and partly fueled by Trump, with populist figures gaining ground in Europe, Britain, Latin America and elsewhere. :steamthumbsup:
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Lime 26 Jul @ 4:43pm 
ooh Scary :o
Fearosa 26 Jul @ 4:47pm 
So dirt bag I don't know much about the japanese politics but I happen to know that they want the US car market so much that they are more than happy with only 15%. Now watch what happens to the German cars if they don't reach a deal and get slammed 30%. All Japan will be in celebration because that practically means more Japanese cars to US market and less German cars
is honourable trump-san going to make japan great again?
Every time someone on the internet talks about a country, I wonder if they are state-sponsored agents.

Although you can automate that kind of post.
DirtBag 26 Jul @ 4:53pm 
Originally posted by Fearosa:
So dirt bag I don't know much about the japanese politics but I happen to know that they want the US car market so much that they are more than happy with only 15%. Now watch what happens to the German cars if they don't reach a deal and get slammed 30%. All Japan will be in celebration because that practically means more Japanese cars to US market and less German cars


Originally posted by St✩rlight:
But why do you care
I like Japan, I drive a Toyota.
Lime 26 Jul @ 4:54pm 
TRUMPU SAMA
If everyone solves their own problems then they can solve the worlds problems.

Also I'm reminded of this... awkward but "winning" Trump commercial... from Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM6WbUw7Bs
DirtBag 26 Jul @ 5:02pm 
Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:
If everyone solves their own problems then they can solve the worlds problems.

Also I'm reminded of this... awkward but "winning" Trump commercial... from Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbM6WbUw7Bs
:steamthumbsup: she's cute
In what way does Japan "not" put itself first? Also how do they plan on tackling economic problems in a country with an elderly and shrinking population whose economy hasn't really been growing for decades.
Zero 26 Jul @ 5:14pm 
Originally posted by Santa Klaus:
In what way does Japan "not" put itself first?
This. Japan is probably the most nationalist first-world country on the planet.
Amanda 26 Jul @ 5:28pm 
Japan is an evil country.

The only people who like Japanese culture are annoying Democrats.

They tattoo Japanese symbols on their body and think they're intelligent.

Go Trump Go.

God Bless the USA.
Kamiyama 26 Jul @ 5:39pm 
Hopefully they make it easier to arrest and deport rude people like Johnny Somali. But hopefully respectful tourists who try to obey the laws and fit in are still permitted to visit.

I wish I lived in Japan. Everything is much more affordable there. They have great mass transportation. You can take a train to pretty much anywhere. Houses are cheap. Food is cheap. Don't need a car, and if you do they have cheap kei cars.
To be fair, Japan has always been right-leaning anyway, so it's not that surprising.

Most of us westerners have probably been looking at Japan through weeb-tinted lenses because anime tends to romanticize everyday life over there, but Filthy Frank said it best when he said, "As an outsider, you're literally praising one of the most xenophobic cultures that exists today." And it's true. You think America's so racist? Wait till you hear about how the Japanese treat someone who's half-Japanese and half-something else.

One example in practice was the late long-time Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama. The good he did was push the envelope on the quality of video-game music and inspired other composers like Nobuo Uematsu and Yoko Shimomura (whom I argue to be much better than Sugiyama individually). But the dude was a serious xenophobe. He was always a Japan First guy, and I think he laughed at trans suicides one time on TV; I think however you may feel about trans people, laughing at suicide is just in bad taste regardless. He was also a denier of Japanese war crimes, donated cash to history revisionist groups, and purposely used only MIDI tracks in DQXI so people would have to buy concert tickets to hear the real-deal, the last of which is the most heinous of all. But that's just one guy. And he had both job-security and respect the entire time he was alive in spite of it all.

So that's not new or surprising. What is surprising is the lack of shame in it all. Japan is the type of nation who will shame itself if its citizens have mental health problems, which is why plenty of anime have mentally-disturbed characters that never see therapists to get treated (a bit of truth in television there). So the last thing Japan should be doing is taking a page out of our complete circus show.

Someone check the Epstein list to see if anyone from overseas is on it. I wanna know how similar they are to Trump. :JunoClown:
Originally posted by Santa Klaus:
In what way does Japan "not" put itself first?

There are always a subset of traitors in any population.

Its why there were blm marches in Japan.
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