> this week, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partners won a two-thirds majority in the legislature’s upper house...amending the constitution is one of the central planks in the LDP’s platform.
> LDP legislators and ministers — including Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe — are members of a radical nationalist organization called Nippon Kaigi, which believes (according to one of its members, Hakubun Shimomura, who until recently was Japan’s education minister) that Japan should abandon a “masochistic view of history” wherein it accepts that it committed crimes during the Second World War. In fact, in Nippon Kaigi’s view, Japan was the wronged party in the war.
> According to the Congressional Research Service, Nippon Kaigi believes that “Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia” during WW2, that the “Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate,” and that the rape of Nanking was either “exaggerated or fabricated.” It denies the forced prostitution of Chinese and Korean “comfort women” by the Imperial Japanese Army, believes Japan should have an army again — something outlawed by Japan’s current constitution — and believes that it should return to worshipping the emperor.
> The LDP’s draft for an amended constitution would eliminate the prohibition on imbuing religious organizations with “political authority,” clearing the way for the return of state Shintoism and emperor worship.
> The new constitution also repeals the right to free speech, adding a clause stating that the government can restrict speech and expression that it sees as “interfering [with] public interest and public order.”
Abe is pro-anime. Pic related. Also anime is one of the ways Japan exports and disseminates its culture abroad, so regardless of its content a Japanese nationalist should always support its existence.
David Stewart
>TFW I AM NOT AND NEVER WILL BE JAPANESE
Brayden King
>LDP’s draft for an amended constitution English translation where?
holy fuck lads after the recent talk of the japs being forcibly enriched i thought it was all ogre
now they are back to being 100% based? fuck yea
Christopher Anderson
No pls no more
Nathaniel Long
>The new constitution also repeals the right to free speech, adding a clause stating that the government can restrict speech and expression that it sees as “interfering [with] public interest and public order.”
Since when do neocons care about free speech?
Brayden Long
I for one welcome our new Japanese overlords.
Thomas Harris
Glad to know that nips are proud of their country and heritage, but
>The new constitution also repeals the right to free speech
... means they're essentially a third world country.
Also, I think this will hurt Japanese nationalism in the mid-term. Get ready for a super liberal Japan where anime girls aren't sexy anymore.
Caleb Allen
Japan finally uncucking themself? Fucking well done
Ryder Lopez
It's so backwards that the "liberal democratic party" is the nationalistic one. So used to liberals being self-loathing cucks.
Landon Robinson
...
Jose Brooks
Please, by all means, prove the article is wrong.
Logan Nelson
Sound great
Henry Butler
Party naming doesnt really mean anything in the world in this and age.
Jayden Campbell
Based japs, just like in my Japanese animes
Robert Carter
>The new constitution also repeals the right to free speech
Read it again. It's effects are being exaggerated by the (((author))). Most countries have at least some restrictions on the type of speech they are willing to protect.
Elijah Long
I-It's beautiful
David Young
Absolutely fucking based
Nippon Banzai
Austin Powell
Long live the empire. (Please let it be real.)
Noah Ward
NIPPON BANZAI
Tyler Evans
I see, a butthurt Jewboy.
Eli Wood
user pretty much all countries except the US restrict guns and speech
Let me suggest two potential rules, both somewhat novel, that could help prevent the twin problems of (1) a hostile takeover of the party by an outsider whose ideas and interests are opposed to the views of the majority of the party and (2) the nomination of a figure with minority support in the party due to a divided opposition.
The first would be a more or less explicit “Trump Rule”: a candidate who does not meet a minimum threshold of experience within the party may not be awarded the majority of delegates in any state. “Extra” delegates won by votes for such candidates could be allocated to unbound “superdelegates.” A minimum could be four or six years in certain specified offices as a Republican – Governor, Senator, Representative, Vice President, Cabinet Secretary, Mayor, state Attorney General, perhaps a few others.
The second potential rule change – which might be difficult to enforce in terms of ballot access, but could be effectively enforced through rules on delegates and debates, assuming the primary calendar is less compressed and less geographically unbalanced in the future – would be to have an escalating series of thresholds that a candidate must pass in order to remain in the race. Such thresholds already exist for debates, but they are very low and tend to rely on polls; these would be based on delegate and/or popular vote results in the early states.
Preventing hostile outsiders from using a minority of the vote to cram down a nominee unacceptable to the majority is exactly what party rules are for.
Adam Cox
This is pretty cool. Congratulations Japan. Make your ancestors proud. Don't pick a fight with the wrong nation this time.
Sebastian Smith
That sounds pretty good actually. A fuckton of leftist sjws are weebs also, if Japan leads the way they may actually consider nationalism as a legitimate ideology.
Gavin Gray
Liberal as in classical capitalist liberal Democratic as in "the will of the Japanese people is to fuck China in the ass"
Hence Liberal Democratic, as opposed to something like the Socialist Cuckmocratic
Carter Cooper
Even the US restricts certain kinds of speech. There's nothing bad or even really unusual about these changes.
Ryan Roberts
Most leftists are already nationalistic, they just don't know it. Just look at how many unironically support 3rd world nationalist movements.
Joshua Perez
JAPAN LEADS
Angel Hill
...
Dominic Adams
If SJWs were anything but totally ignorant about anything beyond their parochial little worldview, they wouldn't be SJWs for long.
Anthony Lopez
It's things like these that make me wish there was a literal fascist state in the world today. That way when people cry wolf, we can point to that county and say 'no this is literally facism'
Jackson Peterson
>current emperor and his heir are shocked that people are forgetting history and refusing to learn from japan's past transgressions >mong wants to return to praising the emperor as a deity on earth
interesting
Camden Lopez
THIS THREAD HAS BEEN BLESSED BY KEK
Dominic Peterson
What is the saying? Democracy only works as long as the majority has the same opinion as me?
Joseph Fisher
>“interfering [with] public interest and public order.” You know, in a sense, we have this as well. We have a freedom of speech, but the law can put on restrictions, or as it says: "to the responsibility of every person under the law." And we do have those restrictions in the form of i.e. not being allowed to offend groups (even though I believe this law is dead as fuck).
so wtf i love facism now?
Jason Mitchell
>Japan should abandon a “masochistic view of history” wherein it accepts that it committed crimes during the Second World War.
>Japan was the wronged party in the war.
>Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate
>Japan should have an army again
Nothing wrong with this senpai.
Based nips being based as always.
Dominic Price
Holy shit!
NIPPON BANZAI
Brayden Collins
The current emperor is thinking of abdicating this year.
Andrew Davis
>Abe is pro anime
Huh.
Brandon Baker
I actually want this to happen
Charles Perez
Welcome to neo-[insert ideology here] politics! Democracy is only good when it produces outcomes that are favourable to (((moneyed interests))).
Liam Reyes
Their word for patriotism is "love country". Same in Chinese.
This explains why they don't indulge in the bullshit practice of manipulating the meaning of words as much as we do. Their language is immune to (((ambiguity))).
Meanwhile "nationalism" in English means "hate".
Zachary Perry
>I will never be a japanese nationalist
Nicholas Richardson
japan is right wing
Justin Brooks
Ok.
Joseph Stewart
Fuck Abe, bring back Aso.
Leo Ortiz
They're saying that democracy only works as long as the (((Two Party System))) remains pure.
Jacob Kelly
>Japan was the wronged party in the war I'd really love to hear his explanation for this They sucker punched the Americans and as punishment the Americans turned one of the most barbaric shitholes in the orient into one of the few places there worth taking notice of WTF AMERICA?
Owen Wilson
KEK is a subversive kike meme created to disturb the God Emperors image from forming in the warp.
Anyone who worships it is a degenerate and will die from ebola.
Ryder Allen
When Europe and North America fall to the dindu and mudslime hordes, east Asians will inherit the earth.
Aaron Sanders
> turned one of the most barbaric shitholes in the orient into one of the few places there worth taking notice of >Japan >barbaric
Chink/gook detected.
Jason Gonzalez
tfw you will never live in a homogeneous country filled with patriotic people
Kayden Watson
>republicans should prevent a hostile takeover of the party by an outsider whose ideas and interests are opposed to the views of the
>"hostile takeover" literally supported by majority of party voters
how can people so smart, be SO FUCKING DUMB
Christian Long
Who /Koizumi/ here?
Daniel Long
actually..
Austin Gonzalez
Leftists should not have free speech
Noah Hill
>implying Japan wasn't the most barbaric
>American education
Kayden Sullivan
>>Japan was the wronged party in the war. The other 3 are fine, the idea of a "warcrime" is retarded to begin with, but japan literally talked shit and got hit. They started it and all is fair in war.
Samuel White
The nose is aligning much destruction globally
Aaron Ramirez
>one of the last places in the world to develop written language, and they ripped it off the super dogeaters >shittiest tech in WW2 >suicidal retard zealots >not barbarians throw yourself off a cliff weeb, unlike you I'm proud to be white
Kayden Wilson
>“several of the current constitutional provisions are based on the Western European theory of natural human rights; such provisions therefore [need] to be changed.”
On one hand, the doctrine of natural human rights has made the individual in the west safer and more humane.
On the other hand, it resulted in women and minorities being given the right to vote, a right which they've used to destroy their host and enslave productive members of society.
Elijah Torres
>sucker punched FDR knew it was going to happen
Aiden Sanders
Abe has always been full of shit
Andrew Perez
ebola chan a shit
Nicholas Reed
Unlike your ancestors the Japs managed to become an industrial power in less than a century. It's nice that you are acclimating to your new home Peng, but please stop denying your true heritage.
Noah Torres
>leafs Yeah I'm sure you're white, chink
Michael Thomas
BASED NIPPON PRAISE KEK BASED NIPPON RISES
Benjamin Ross
>Japan Reverts to Fascism WEW Japan will be great again! Birthrates will explode after national pride is restored and mangas will become even more bad ass with Hugo Boss style,...
I can understand why Josh (((Gelernter))) is angry. Only Israel is allowed to be great.
Jacob Allen
> a leaf > proud to be white
That sounds awfully intolerant there; I'll make sure to report you to Trudeau so you can have some tolerance reeducation you racist cishet white male
Jeremiah Nelson
>Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia
Bentley Cox
I was really hoping this was as exaggeration, but seeing all this corroborated in that dailybeast article is depressing me.
Nippon Kaigi sounds like a pathetic group of senile idiots who are still butthurt about getting their dumb ideas smacked down in WW2
Henry Garcia
>According to the Congressional Research Service, Nippon Kaigi believes that “Japan should be applauded for liberating much of East Asia” during WW2 >Tokyo War Crimes tribunals were illegitimate,” and that the rape of Nanking was either “exaggerated or fabricated.” It denies the forced prostitution of Chinese and Korean “comfort women” by the Imperial Japanese Army
No actual educated people believe this right? Also why does people jack off about WWII IJA and IJN who were complete shits?
WWI and Russo-Jap IJA/IJN were based as fuck and should've been the army to die for.
Matthew Howard
Stop posting on Sup Forums, Park
>dailybeast Guy...
Ryder Williams
Jesus Christ everyone is moving to the right. What the fuck is going on, why are all of our institutions so far left yet popular support seems to be moving towards fascism?
Daniel King
>tfw I'll never rebuild my race and restore ourselves to glory by order of the emperor
Mason James
>I was really hoping this was as exaggeration
>>> lebbit fuck of to your safe space
William Hall
The USSR did that in twenty years.
Zachary Torres
More right wing anime like GuP
Brandon Cooper
IJN wasn't as horrible as IJA, just ineffective
Dylan Howard
I know that feel.
Landon White
>nationalists >imports 2 million people already What itsy bitsy nationalistic thing have they accomplished ever? Literally American plant for globalism.
Carter Morales
That's just a conspiracy theory.
Dominic Harris
Chomsky has claimed that the Tokyo Tribunals were bullshit and largely an exercise in political theater. He's right too. If you look at what they charged people with and the evidence they used to convict it rarely added up. Not sure about Nanking though. The pictures are probably fake but so many people claimed to have seen them massacring civilians that I am liable to believe that something bad happened.
Nathaniel King
America was the one who put sanctions on them first
Julian Nguyen
Reminder that the Spaniards that come to this board are uneducated chimpanzees or actual commies. Or both.
Charles Carter
>americans rebuild japan >Japs managed to become an industrial power in less than a century hahahaha, the only places in the orient worth taking notice of are the ones supported by the west. Like Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. Even China only has power because the west uses them as their manufacturing hub. like I give a fuck what some blowhard americuck nip-nop wannabes think, if I'm a chink then you guys are easily beaners and niggers by the same argument, but I'm sure you wish you were so that you could better relate to your wife's son
Brayden Anderson
It could be bad. Anime and videogames industries are considered as trash made by lazy degenerate who refuse to grow up and become salarymen. They aren't considered as japanese culture at all by japanese conservative people.
