Japanese culture is significantly different than ours…
Last fall, Sanae Takaichi was elected Prime Minister of Japan, making her the nation’s first female leader. Normally, Democrats would trip over themselves to praise such an example of girl-bossing. But Takaichi is a conservative, you see, so the Left has to hate her. When she was first elected, CNN called her a “hardline conservative.” Now over the weekend, another election has given Takaichi’s ironically named Liberal Democratic Party an even bigger advantage in Japan’s House of Representatives.
Sky News has now upped the ante, calling Takaichi an “ultra-conservative” who is “seizing” more power.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
Personally, I find it ‘funny’ that the MSM refuses to champion her because she is a conservative. She is literally the FIRST ever female prime minister!!!
And Japan is historically very conservative when you actually dig into their beliefs. Starting in 1955, The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan has been the major political entity in Japan. Contrary to their name, they are conservative, favoring low taxes, few restrictions on businesses, and a strong military self-defense force.
The LDP is not just hardliners, but has a little bit of every type of politicians in their group.
But the MSM refuses to recognize this… Why???
They don’t want to admit she’s right in what she’s doing, or she doesn’t match up with ‘their’ version of what women in power are supposed to do, or because she aligns with the current administration?
I don’t know, but they ARE missing a chance to elevate a woman who definitely deserves it… Grrrr…
“But the MSM refuses to recognize this… Why???”
Because the MSM are a bunch of communist arseholes.
+100
MSM cannot handle conservatives or moderates.
Hey Old NFO,
The Japanese if I read the “tea leaves” correctly…Yeah bad pun…most of them want to leave their culture intact and the influx of ill mannered “Gaijin’s” have irritated them plus the resurgent Chinese bullying the Philippine’s and the Japanese know that the Chinese will go after them next because after all “The Far East Co-prosperity Sphere” to an oriental was last week. ANd China has a slew of internal problems to boot an external distraction is always a good thing. THe MSN will only support a female if they are of the proper ideology “Shame, she a wronggrouphivethink, she ain’t white” Mused the analysts over at the legacy Media. Or did I say that out loud….
She is compromised. Nobody gets into such a position and continues living, that isn’t.
“seizing” power by being elected. Yup. No matter how much you hate the legacy media, it isn’t enough.
The Left vilifies anyone not of the Left. It doesn’t matter what you do, what you say, or who you are. They are all saints, and we are all demons.
o/t – I’ve seen a lot of “different than” over the last couple years. Before, it was always “different from”. Anybody else notice this change, or is it just me?
Not just you. But not more than incorrect use of I/me, further/farther; just one more adverb adverse “Drive safe” uttered by cops and politicians will make the count a thousand too many.
I’ve always heard both, but over the past few years I’ve noticed “different to” being added into the mix, particularly by Brits and those who work with them regularly.
Italy Prime minister Giorgia Meloni has joined the conversation
I believe they call Ms. Meloni everything including fascist.
Any opponent of mass migration is labeled fascist these days. Those who favor remigration are treated even worse.
Dude, it’s MSM. Pure agitprop.
The media has made themselves irrelevent. The only place to turn to for accurate news is Old NFO.
X2
They don’t like leaders that they can’t control.
All- Thanks, and I wouldn’t call myself a place to turn…LOL I just ‘report’ on what I find or that interests me. And yes, a lot of the MSM is nothing more than agitprop, if that… sigh
they are liberals and democrats and are totally bringing back the Kempei Tai and prosecuting the japanese intellectuals
wait, wait, sorry, that is my fanfic.
(Akshully, my most stupidly political fanfic set in Japan posits a Japanese party that is literally a Japanese Dixiecratic party. I decided I needed an obviously fake in-joke to take dead seriously. There’s a political crisis, and the Socialist, Democrats, and Liberal Democrats each want to make the next coalition, and it winds up being decided with Yu Gi Oh cards. Adding the Dixiecrats would make a more proper tournament, except that my actual plot wound up reduced to fighting within the LDP.)
I learned about the Yakuza affiliated ‘more extreme than the LDP’ far right in Japan from wikipedia, and I’m not sure I would disagree with them, because I also object to revisionist history about WWII. XD
Anyway, at least the Japanese Teachers association is probably pretty bad, and it is good for the Japanese Socialist party to lose.
The real effect might mostly be that the Japanese finally read the room, and stop trying to screw us on climate change accounting.
I’m not sure if Japanese academics and professionals are against the ordinary Japanese person the way American academics and professionals are seemingly against the ordinary American person. Even if they are, the way the Japanese think about their internal peace is not the way we think about ours.
Anyway, the last time the Japanese had a serious internal dispute over expelling the foreigners may have been the Bakumatsu.
There is a bunch of hagiographic fiction about, say, Hijikata in Japan these days, but I just do not see them handling stuff now the way that went down.
Anyway, I know about Sonno Jui, etc., because if you are multiculturalist by picking examples from foreign cultures, people can’t legitimately call you racist for doing what you might as easily choose to do following purely native examples.
American cultural examples, like what Trump is doing now, are far better than the examples of, say, the Interahamwe, or Winnie Mandela. What the academics are maybe suggesting can be actively worse than what Americans would do if they ignored the academics entirely.
Anyway, the Japanese these days are well fed, and not afraid of starving they way they were in even the 1930s. So very degenerate, that they are going to address their problems with committees, consensus, and writing documents, instead of by getting young fanatics fired up for stabbing sprees.
(Though, the LDP may actually be now a bit less corrupt, considering the fall out from the personal vigilante shooting by that guy who hated Abe’s Moonie friends. )
But, yeah, I am totally for sure worried about surprising and extremist behavior from the LDP.
This is Reiwa, not Heisei, and definitely not Showa.
Thing to remember, is that Japan’s diet is not the senate, not congress, and not parliament.
It is close to a parliament, but a little different.
This composition of the diet, excepting deaths of illness and old age, will be around until the next election.
But, the Japanese governments historically can be much briefer than the spacing between the elections. Because they have votes, often along party lines, about the coalitions, and forming the government, and loss of confidence, etc.
She ‘won’ the general election, has a lot of LDP folks in the Diet, and almost certainly has the factions very well in hand for forming a government she wants, and which the Emperor will command.
This is absolutely not permanent or unchecked power.
The LDP is probably fairly broad now, and also it is maybe easy to form factions within it that will deal with each other.
The people who are in the Diet are not spending their days isolated on mountains practicing Shugendo. They spend their time in a city, living a hard drinking party culture. The question is not whether the LDP members elected will have political corruption scandals showing up. It is when, and how big.
Basically, her coalition is already eroding, and her long term will depend on what she delivers to her party, and to the people of Japan.
Whatever happens is unlikely to be a real surprise to the LDP folks, and it is probably going to be something they have been talking over for a while.
The communists do need to try to convince themselves that they will be in camps if they don’t start the revolution, so of course they make those predictions.
First woman PM, historic for that definition of historic.
But, not officially a feminist, so very ritually impure for feminist goals.
Bob- Good points, but having dealt with both the JMSDF and Japanese scientists, I find them to be very conservative, regardless of what the Diet and other do. You say her coalition is eroding, but based on the snap elections last week, I think the opposite is true.
She is probably going to be very successful at building things back up anyway, over quite a few weeks or months.
Will probably depend a lot on how well she delivers to her politicians, and to the public.
If the opposition doesn’t pick up some seats in the next couple of elections, whenever those are, her strongest competition will probably be inside the LDP. But, that is years in the future, so long a time as to be unforeseeable.
Important to note that she did better than anyone, including her, expected. The primary opposition party was almost eliminated with most of its leading politicians losing their seats.
More at my substack here – https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/japans-election?r=7yrqz