Japanese politics

I got a question for jap anons: why does the LDP win every single election there? To a outsider like myself it almost looks a single party state.

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I think the more important question is: why does their logo contain wypipo?

the DPJ won the election once but it has to do with the LDP's political organization

Because an opposition party is incompetent.

Because the real battle is settled beforehand.
A lot of political balancing and negotiations within the LDP can produce higher quality politicians than true democratic elections

How is one party motivated to change without competition? I don't understand how that would produce anything but worse politicians because there's no incentive

there's cutthroat competition inside the party, that's the whole point

It's a bit like how sometimes a monarchy (or any other hereditary dictatorship) can be much better than a democracy, since the monarchs are groomed for power, they're not just random demagogues.

Japanese liberals are just anarchists from the hippie movement era who sort of believe the world must become like John Lennon's Imagine, whose random and irresponsible political views are ironically protected and unquestioned by the American militaristic empire.

Only the LDP do things based on realism or sometimes machiavellianism.

>single party state
Canadian education, huehuehue

List of political parties in Japan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Japan

There are 2 times of regime change in 1990s in Japan.
There are 2 times of regime change after 2000 in Japan.

Political competition is very limited (internet campaigning is prohibited for example). Regional party machines à la Tammany Hall are still strong.

what come to my mind are:
a) LDP covers a wide spectrum of strata as it originated from a union of big parties and is comprised of conservative/liberal/socialist/etc.-oriented factions
b) japanese people’s preference for a “de-facto standard” thing
c) modern japanese apathy about politics led to political inertia (people think like “everything relevant is decided by bureaucracy anyway”)

LDP is a party of centre-right, stands in the American side.
It's centre-right, but not small government. Therefore they made many debts.

Their political structure is similar to that of Russia or Singapore.
During the past 60 years, the Liberal Democratic Party has ruled for 55 years.

It used to be the case that bureaucrats decided policy while politicians appeased their constituents with public works projects.

read this

Then it is not 55 years, but about 50 years.
not a big difference

The biggest opposition party leader.
Hysteric woman of Chinese nationality.

No it's not.
I understand you Koreans can't imagine what it's like to be united and not under militaristic dictatorship so I am sorry for that.

>conservative/liberal/socialist/etc.-oriented factions
you're saying that like it's normal for those factions to be in a long-lasting union.

LDP was founded with the support of conservative bureaucracy, keiratsu and yakuza. Even CIA gave them funds throughout the 50s and 60s.

japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/20/national/u-s-admits-cia-gave-ldp-money-in-1950s-1960s/

It's in the 1955-1990 only. Because it was the era of Cold War.
Japan needed a stable government in the era.

CIA used the same model with the Christian Democratic Party of Italy. The first post-war election was in fact falsified because it was won by the communists.

DC and the whole Italian political system collapsed in the 1990s under the weight of enormous corruption scandals.

You seem to be a knower, Slovak user.
Your posts are informative

Same here with our Christian Democratic party, except for the falsified election

Japanese left-wing is so shit

Abe is not far-right.
In fact, far-right criticizes Abe in Japan.

How shit is media in Japan? Is it as shitty as Western outlets (including RT)?

This stuff broadcasts in the US on terrestrial TV and Radio. Dunno why.

Wow, Obama shouldn't have spoken, just listened at Hiroshima.

Abe looks cute

How do you want your party logo, senpai?

Because it is practically a single-party state, whether the Japanese themselves are willing to admit to this or not.

because, in Japan, biggest opposition party is liberal shit media like CNN.