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Re: Japan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 8, 2026, 5:00 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/8/pm-sanae-takaichis-party-set-for-majority-in-japan-parliamentary-elections
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> Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party has won a
landslide in Japan’s general election, securing a supermajority
in the country’s lower house of parliament.
>
> Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 316 of the 465
seats in the powerful lower house in Sunday’s election, well
above the 233 needed for a majority
> ...
> “Essentially, she can push through any legislation she wants,
whether it’s the record budget that was recently approved or
defence spending,” Mark told Al Jazeera from the capital Tokyo.
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Xi's actions since November caused this:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddeGcNGJGY
Recall that the LDP was (deservedly) viewed as finished not that
long ago:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_(Japan)#2009%E2%80%93present
--- Quote ---
> support dropping in 2022 after the assassination of Shinzo Abe
over connections between various party members and the
Unification Church
> ...
> From 18 to 19 January 2024, following a scandal involving
failure to report and misuse of ¥600 million in campaign funds
by members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's
conservative Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai and Shisuikai factions
in violation of Japanese campaign finance and election law,
three factions (Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, Shisuikai, in
addition to PM Kishida's Kōchikai) all announced their
intention to dissolve entirely in hopes of restoring public
trust.[43][44] Several LDP lawmakers were indicted, including
incumbent lawmakers Yasutada Ōno and Yaichi Tanigawa, who
both resigned from the party following their indictments.[45]
>
> In the 2024 Japanese general election, the governing LDP and
its coalition partner Komeito lost their parliamentary majority
in the lower house for the first time since 2009, with the LDP
suffering its second-worst result in its history, securing only
191 seats. The Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the main
opposition party led by former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda,
achieved its best result in its history, increasing its seat
count from 96 to 148. This was the first general election in
Japan since the 1955 election wherein no party secured at least
200 seats. The election outcome is largely attributed to a major
slush fund scandal that emerged in November. Millions of yen
raised at LDP faction events were illegally funneled into secret
accounts, violating political financing laws. This scandal
implicated 82 lawmakers from both parliamentary houses,
including factions associated with former Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe and then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The scandal, combined
with low approval ratings and economic stagnation, led to
Kishida's resignation in August. His successor, Prime Minister
Shigeru Ishiba, called for a snap election in September to
bolster support. However, the LDP's attempts to distance itself
from the scandal backfired when reports surfaced that the party
continued to provide funds to chapters headed by implicated
members. In response to the election results, the prime minister
has committed to implementing fundamental reforms regarding
money in politics. The LDP's coalition partner, Komeito, also
performed poorly, with its leader Keiichi Ishii losing his seat
and subsequently announcing his resignation. This electoral
setback is particularly significant for the LDP, which has held
power almost continuously since 1955, highlighting the impact of
the corruption scandal on public trust in the party.[46] The
coalition also lost its majority in the upper house in 2025.
This marked the first time in the LDP's history that it did not
control either house in the National Diet.
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Takaichi herself was viewed with pessimism when she first took
over:
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> After Ishiba announced his resignation, Sanae Takaichi was
elected to succeed him. She is the first woman to hold the role
of party president. In October 2025, Komeito chief
representative Tetsuo Saito announced that it would leave the
ruling coalition, over disagreements with Takaichi's
leadership.[47]
--- End Quote ---
No one else in the world besides Xi could have brought the LDP
back to supercharged vitality in a mere three months. But Xi was
stupid enough to do just that.
The LDP's gain is the CDP's loss:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Japanese_general_election
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> LDP Centrist Reform
> Seat change
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Democratic_Party_of_Japan
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> The party supports the phasing out of nuclear energy in
Japan,[59] and government investment in renewable energy.[60]
> ...
> In 2019, the party pledged to support LGBT rights and the
legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan,[65] and in March
2023, promoted a parliamentary bill for Japan to legally
recognise such couplings.[66]
> ...
> The CDP's 2024 platform supported raising the minimum wage,
the abolition of tuition fees, free school meals, gender
equality legislation and reform of laws regulating use of
surnames following marriage in Japan.[71][72]
> ...
> The CDP released a statement on its official website in August
2025 in which it was stated that there was a need to recognize
Palestine as an independent country.[74]
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(While on the subject, prior to Takaichi, it used to be
speculated that the first female Japanese PM would come from the
left (which I would also have preferred):
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renh%C5%8D
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> Renhō Saitō (斉藤 蓮舫,
Saitō Renhō; née Hsieh (謝), formerly Murata
(村田); born 28 November 1967), known mononymously
as Renhō, is a Japanese politician and former journalist
who has served as a member of the House of Councillors from 2004
to 2024, and again since 2025. She was the leader of the
now-defunct major opposition party, the Democratic Party from
2016 to 2017.
> ...
> Renhō was born Hsieh Lien-fang (traditional Chinese:
謝蓮舫; ; pinyin: Xiè Liánfǎng; Japanese
pronunciation: Sha Renhō) in Tokyo to a Japanese mother
Keiko Saitō (斉藤圭子 Saitō
Keiko) and Han Taiwanese father Hsieh Ge-hsin
(謝哲信 Xiè Zhéxìn).
> ...
> After her debut as a Clarion Girl in 1988, Renhō appeared
on several television and radio programs as a commentator. In
1993, she became a newscaster on TBS and TV Asahi, covering
several historical events including the Great Hanshin earthquake
in 1995, sometimes alongside Sanae Takaichi.[8]
>
> She was married in 1993. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and
had also studied it at Peking University in Beijing, China, from
1995 to 1997.
> ...
> In September 2016, she was elected as the leader of Japan's
Democratic Party, making her the first woman elected as their
leader, and the first person with mixed ethnic heritage and born
with foreign citizenship to head a major political party in
Japan.[16][17]
> ...
> She applied to join the CDP on 26 December 2017, citing the
DP's lack of policy directions and the CDP's conversely clear
policy directions.[22][23] The CDP admitted her into the party
on 28 December 2017.[24][25]
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This is now all irrelevant history.)
Worse still is our preferred party now down to just one seat:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa_Shinsengumi
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> Reiwa Shinsengumi
(れいわ新選組) is a
progressive[8][9] and left-wing populist[10][11] political party
in Japan founded by actor-turned-politician Taro Yamamoto in
April 2019.
> ...
> The party's top policy priorities include reducing or
abolishing the consumption tax, strengthening progressive
corporate taxation, raising the government-subsidized minimum
wage to ¥1,500 per hour, forgiving student loan repayments, and
expanding social welfare in general.[39] The party has made the
Green New Deal its policy platform and believes a big government
role is needed to solve problems.[40]
> ...
> The party has defended Palestine and taken part in protests
against Israel.[5]
>
> The party is variously described as being anti-austerity,
anti-establishment,[11][43][44] and anti-nuclear power[45] as
well as supporting animal welfare,[45] minority rights,[45][46]
and economic interventionism,[47] and the main supporters of
this party are also left-liberals.[48][49]
>
> According to their "Emergency Policies" document, the party
supports reducing carbon emissions as fast as possible, reducing
emissions by 70% by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by
2050, eradicating tuition fees and university debt, and
providing free childcare, school lunches, afterschool
activities, and medical expenses for children under 18.[50]
>
> The party has announced that it would reverse/abolish many of
the laws that were revised or passed by Prime Minister
Shinzō Abe if elected, including the pre-emptive
anti-terrorism law such as martial law State Secrecy Law and the
Legislation for Peace and Security.[citation needed]
>
> The party is also notable for its activism outside of the
Diet, including in street protests. Lawmakers such as Akiko
Oishi and Mari Kushibuchi have been active in pro-Palestine
street demonstrations.[51]
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Israel thanks Xi for his bewildering incompetence.
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Re: Japan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 26, 2026, 11:29 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YUIb4Mxov0
Now imagine if China had followed my advice instead:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/wmds/msg31671/#msg31671
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> The best way to undermine the Trump-Putin plan would be for
China to become the strongest public voice supporting a
nuclear-armed Japan (including offering whatever practical
assistance might be needed towards this end), which would
reassure Japan that China has no intention of nuking itself,
which would reciprocally also enable China to feel safer knowing
that Japan now has no way to credibly accuse China of hostility
towards itself. This is folkism.
--- End Quote ---
Now it is too late. Even if China from the current position
tries to congratulate Japan for re-arming, Japan would not
believe China is sincere, as Japan watched China trying to
prevent this the whole time prior to the current position. The
correct time for China to support Japan re-arming was before
even (or, at the absolute latest, as soon as) Japan itself
brought up the issue.
#Post#: 32598--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 10, 2026, 7:10 am
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How to damage China-Japan relations even further?
HTML http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/2025xb/V_251452/16459420.html
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> BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Eighty years after the opening of
the Tokyo Trials, the publication of a complete Chinese
translation of the transcripts of the proceedings of the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
spotlights innumerable war crimes of Japanese militarists,
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said here on
Friday.
>
> These transcripts are the core archives of the Tokyo Trials.
They documented the tribunal's entire proceedings that lasted
for more than two years. The handwritten diaries by U.S. lawyer
David Nelson Sutton who served as an assistant prosecutor at the
Tokyo Trials were recently uncovered and made public for the
first time.
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Answer: proactively excavate and amplify colonial-era Western
manouevres to divide China and Japan. You can't make this ****
up..... ::)
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East
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> Following Japan's defeat and occupation by the Allies, the
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, United States General
Douglas MacArthur, issued a special proclamation establishing
the IMTFE.
> ...
> Criticism
> Charges of victors' justice
>
> The United States had provided the funds and staff necessary
for running the Tribunal and also held the function of Chief
Prosecutor. The argument was made that it was difficult, if not
impossible, to uphold the requirement of impartiality with which
such an organ should be invested. This apparent conflict gave
the impression that the tribunal was no more than a means for
the dispensation of victors' justice.
> ...
> Justice Radhabinod Pal argued that the exclusion of Western
colonialism and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
from the list of crimes and the lack of judges from the
vanquished nations on the bench signified the "failure of the
Tribunal to provide anything other than the opportunity for the
victors to retaliate".[32] In this he was not alone among Indian
jurists, with one prominent [Kolkata] barrister writing that the
Tribunal was little more than "a sword in a [judge's] wig."
>
> Justice Röling stated, "of course, in Japan we were all aware
of the bombings and the burnings of Tokyo and Yokohama and other
big cities. It was horrible that we went there for the purpose
of vindicating the laws of war, and yet saw every day how the
Allies had violated them dreadfully."[33]
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As I already said here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/taiwan/msg32059/#msg32059
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> Taiwan's relationship with Japan is what could have been
China's relationship with Japan by now if not for Xi
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What we should be promoting instead is regressive folkist
content such as:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-w4IBLom_g
(This movie is Tripping, starring the same leads as Waiting in
the Dark. I have not yet found it on streaming platforms so far,
but I myself have an AVI file of it. If anyone is interested, I
am willing to share.)
#Post#: 32923--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 3, 2026, 5:43 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOSwsL8KhC8
#Post#: 33123--------------------------------------------------
Re: Japan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 21, 2026, 8:38 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iO1ZyYKap4
And guess which side Eurocentrist Xi is on:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_j4329Ss7s
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