The Japanese leader’s election gambit, fueled by the power of her personality and some unlikely help from young voters consumed by “Sanamania,” appears to have paid off.
Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election.
Takaichi, who took office in October after being elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), surpassed the 310 seats needed for a supermajority in the 465-seat lower house, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported from the official election count on Sunday evening. The supermajority allows her ruling coalition to override the upper house, where it lacks a majority.
An NHK exit poll as voting ended earlier on Sunday projected the LDP would win between 274 and 326 seats. The party and its coalition partner Ishin were projected to win a combined 302-366 seats, as voters turned out amid freezing temperatures in a rare winter election.
TBF fascism never really stopped in Japan. The American occupation was so clueless it changed very little of what Japan was before; the elites just kind of divided into nominal parties.
Clueless or intentional?
Clueless.
Hanlon’s razor. Also, how great a cultural understanding would you expect 1940’s America to develop?
& @hark@lemmy.world please educate me and CanadaPlus how we are clueless on fascist praxies of 🇯🇵, seeing as I begrudgingly live here.
You completely misunderstood. They said Clueless to point out that it was the US in the post-war who were clueless and not them calling you a name
Lol, k.
and the biggest communist agitator died at a quite convienent time
That’s disappointing, but good to know. Thanks.
Yes, it is. America really biffed it, and the nuking a couple cities thing wasn’t great either.
Now, that’s not to say Japanese democracy is fake. The elections are real, and AFAIK the parties have gradually taken on real ideological differences. It does help explain why they’re broadly racist, still not sorry about WWII and have a lot of regional vote buying with projects, though.
Edit: Not great women’s rights either, ironically.
Pretty decent summary of American history, that. With few exceptions.