>It wasn’t so long ago that Shinzo Abe appeared on course to becoming Japan’s longest-serving prime minister ever.
>But after his conservative Liberal Democratic Party’s crushing defeat in Sunday’s Tokyo assembly election, Abe’s iron grip on power has finally shown signs of slipping — a setback critics say is the biggest crisis he has faced since his sweeping return to power in December 2012.
>Sunday’s election saw Abe’s LDP lose big to a fledgling party headed by the capital’s popular governor, Yuriko Koike. Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First), as it is called, trounced the LDP by capturing 49 seats in the 127-member assembly. The tally, if combined with seats won by its allies, including Komeito, gives the pro-Koike forces a comfortable majority in the assembly at 79 seats.
>It also places a big question mark over Abe’s recently announced timeline for revising the pacifist Constitution by 2020. His goal is to alter war-renouncing Article 9 to make explicit the status of the Self-Defense Forces.
>With the main opposition Democratic Party so hopelessly unpopular, Abe had faced no real enemy until Sunday’s election. But when confronted with a powerful alternative in the person of Koike, the fragility of his popularity was made painfully clear.
Looks like right-wing nationalism is dying in Japan as well. Do you think Trump is going to be pissed he'll have to remember another slanty-eyed Jap's name when Abe is ousted?
>Koike has also actively promoted Japanese pop culture, appearing in cosplay as Sally from Sally the Witch in 2015, and stating during her 2016 Tokyo gubernatorial campaign that she wanted to turn all of Tokyo into an "anime land"
lol wut
Camden Davis
>Looks like right-wing nationalism is dying in Japan as well. You do realize that Yuriko Koike is a very right-leaning, conservative nationalist, right?
Koike's a massive animu fan and thinks Nipland's economy could improve by putting even more emphasis on anime.
Dylan Powell
Her winning was a good thing. >As a conservative nationalist, she belonged to the Diet members' league to support the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform. Koike was one of the five vice secretaries general of the Diet Members' Committee of Nippon Kaigi, the country's largest conservative think tank and the main historical revisionist lobby, once chaired by Tarō Asō. >She was a member of the Diet members' group to promote Yasukuni Shrine visits, led by Yoshinobu Shimamura, and goes to pay her respects to the war dead at the shrine on War-End Day, 15 August, almost every year.Not being able to visit in 2007 due to an official trip to Okinawa, she sent her proxy.
>Her foreign and security policies are often regarded as hawkish. She suggested that the prime minister revise the interpretation of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan to enable the government to exercise the right to collective self-defense. >She has supported the United States and the War on Terror and opposes the Japanese government's tradition of UN-centered foreign policy. During the 2008 LDP leadership election, she pledged to make Russia return the four disputed islands to Japan if she was elected as prime minister. >Koike has also actively promoted Japanese pop culture, appearing in cosplay as Sally from Sally the Witch in 2015, and stating during her 2016 Tokyo gubernatorial campaign that she wanted to turn all of Tokyo into an "anime land".
Jace Wright
bump
Jason Wood
Sounds like this Koike lady, is "Aaaay-Koooy-Kaaay" to me! *smiley wink* *walks away very sensually moving hips side to side to accentuate my butt*
Easton Lee
Bump lets talk about this
Jayden Scott
She seems pretty based. I envy Japan being able to have a decent right wing party and consevative party as the dominant powers.
Mason Russell
Even Japan's liberal party leans right.
Aiden Adams
LDP are the Right Wing (Far Right by Eurocuck standards) party that has ruled Japan almost continuously since the end of WW2.
They had a brief hiatus after the 90's economic crash, with a public angry at their ties to financial corruption that in part led to the collapse.
For them to lose during relatively stable times indicates a large change in Japanese social attitudes.
B L A C K E D
Evan King
She's also quite the environmentalist surprisingly: >Having learned an environmental way of life from her own experience of wartime austerities in Egypt, Koike addresses environmental issues. She received the Japan Jewelry Best Dresser Award for her success in the Cool Biz and Warm Biz campaign. She expressed the idea of introducing a carbon tax in 2005 so that Japan might achieve the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. The next year, she inaugurated the "Mottainai Furoshiki" campaign, which urges shoppers to use furoshiki in place of plastic shopping bags. She is against the use of biofuels made from food crops.
That said, I get the impression that the Japanese in general are pretty liberal when it comes to the environment, even if conservative in other ways.
Jackson Johnson
Environmentalism was initially a right-wing ideology before it got hijacked by leftists and bleeding hearts. A lot of the first major politicians and leaders who were environmentalists were right-wing.
Jack Peterson
> Options are a right wing party and a righter wing party.
Fuck me i wish i was japanese.
Evan Sullivan
Seems alright to me.
Sebastian Lewis
What? It wasn't ever "right-wing". It just wasn't a partisan issue in the USA, before Republicans flipped (Progressive Era Republicans were some of the earliest political leaders for environmental conservation). And just about every party in the EU and developed countries agrees that it is something they have to deal with.
Wyatt Kelly
she's a woman There is a zero percent chance the media does not influence her into adopting more leftist policies kys
Brandon Carter
>Not voting for Honest Abe what's wrong with japs?
Evan Ramirez
She's literally more right-leaning and nationalist than Abe.
>kys Hello plebbit.
Asher Cox
wtf i love Koike now
Blake Green
Abe's been caving in to globalist demands so they voted for a further right-wing alternative.
Logan White
only thing I care about is that they reinstate the emperor and openly call him a good again. him having to give up his divines was a great dishonor to japan and it´s history. The Divine Wind must return!
Luis Bailey
Its because in Shintoism nature is literally sacred.
Isaiah Perry
Disclosure: My portfolio wants Abe to take down his trade barriers.
Left-right is the spectrum for brainlets. Why do people who claim to believe in market economy have hard-ons for protectionism? In truth, guys on this board don't believe in much, they just feel the need for a strongman (or strongwoman, in this case) to prop them up.
The natsocs are more honest with themselves than the ancaps.
Hudson Robinson
Also, this.
Zachary Miller
Actually Koike's party is conservative nationalism, basically she's the republican of Japan. Right wing nationalism hasn't really existed in Japan there are a few cars here and there that run around Tokyo screaming all the foreign people to go out but OP stop spewing false information.
She's as ultra conservative as anyone on the right. Abe fucked up because he and his crooked friends keep pumping money on illegal buildings if anything this is good for Japan.
Chase Harris
fuck the japs. pic related.
Daniel Richardson
>Why do people who claim to believe in market economy Hadn't come up on this board for years until the post-election influx of national review-tier asshats and 50 year old boomer/gen-x line straddlers. >have hard-ons for protectionism? Because this is a national socialist board -- full stop.
Jaxon Green
How is this a sign of "right-win nationalism losing" if they voted for someone ON THE RIGHT of Abe?
Cameron Morgan
Ancaps and libertarians had been here for a very long time. But I do agree that a lot of these yellow flags stand for people who have been here for less than 1.5 years or so.
Cameron Bennett
>mad because you are getting cucked by radiation.
STAY MAD PLEB
Dominic Anderson
> My portfolio wants Abe to take down his trade barriers. Sounds like a garbage portfolio.
>Why do people who claim to believe in market economy have hard-ons for protectionism? Because they're not mutually exclusive.
Joshua Harris
>have been here for a very long time They WERE here for a very long time. It wasn't until Trumpstein's paid hasbarat bot campaign alerted the "freedom fries" crowd to our particular corner of the web that the sentiment crept back in.
Carson Taylor
>trumps 4d chess makes anime real
If we win any more user my heart will give out
Asher Collins
>Sally the Witch That was a clever move.
Charles Ross
Japs are cool. Eat shit and die.
Dominic Smith
What we really need, is a quick rundown on her new party, its associates and her motive.
Eli Baker
>what is Komeito
>what is the late 2000's until the 2011 earthquake
Henry Bell
mhmm
Cameron Rivera
Doesn't Japan have massive debnts? Are they going to gix it?