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>japanese right wing loses big during tokyo election
>japanese right wing win big cause all the votes went to other right wing parties
japanese communists also lost some of their most commie blocs they held for decades, reiwa didnt even gain a single seat
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>>2349405
Interesting. I'll have to think about that more before coming to any firm conclusions but it does seem plausible.
If socialism is seen as a means of furthering the development of a national project from bourgeois shackles it does make sense that the national project of japan would be incompatible with socialism.

>>2349841
N-Nooo!!! They are a hivemind and clash of civilization and aliens invaded and they work 90 hours per week and and and

Meanwhile in reality: Japan is basically scandinavian socdem because Japanese porky shat their pants at the student protests in the 60s and 70s

>>2349265
Real working hours or unpaid extra hours?

>>2350494
>Japan is socdem
Lmao don't kid yourself retard

>>2350503
it's more acurate to say they were socdem, but it has been heavily neoliberized compared to it's past.

>>2350503
>public healthcare
>public transport
>public housing
>high purchasing power
>low rent
>low real estate prices
>less work hours than the US
They are scandi socdem.

>>2347931
I realized this after living in Japan for a few years and it’s honestly frightening. And impressive at the same time.

The fact that most Japanese are racist and believe in the Yamato mythology is proof.

>>2349405
When you combina nationalism that claims homogeneity and a very strict hierarchical society you end up with a very oppressive society. That’s Japan.

Nationalism -> We are all Yamato -> Pressure to conform (be “Japanese”) -> Obedience to authority -> Suppress personal creativity

And this is why Japan has so much weird stuff too. Because people try to be who they really are in their free time. It looks contradictory but it isn’t once you understand it.

>>2350638
>>2350834
westoids when they go to japan and somebody hits them with the 'wow your japanese is so good :)' (this is literally jim crow 2.0)

>>2350558
thats just neoliberal shit

>>2349405
>Conquering their neighbors is what makes Japan, Japan. Without it their culture would just be whatever Korean or Chinese envoys left them as good-will presents.
>This is why they refuse to apologize and refuse to give up their claim to Korean and Chinese territory.
Hmm. I think its overexaggerates the importance of national accomplishment to having some progressive element. I'm sure it's easier to inspire the Chinese to be on the cutting edge of social development, them knowing that they've been pioneering social and state formation for thousands of years, but I don't think that should NECESSARILY make it IMPOSSIBLE in Japan. Probably I think the Japanese servile culture plays a role too.

>>2351108
kek the final cope
read the book

>>2352253
>m-muh sweet nippon are actually based socialists!

>>2350558
Hey… That sounds just like Chynah!!!

>>2349257
imageboards are a fine medium, their failures are always failures of leadership. they're like a nuclear reactor: incredibly powerful if you operate it right, and incredibly cancerous if you fuck up.

4chan-derived imageboard culture scorns moderation, but an imageboard can only be good when moderators with good taste closely watch the board, purging bad content and letting rule-skirting good content slide. this is made worse because most people imagine that the key unit of the imageboard is the poster and not the post - they try to keep out "bad posters" rather than purging bad posts.

>>2349370
>because they didn't have access to guns
lmao you have no idea what you're talking about. the one thing the Japanese far left didn't lack was random revolutionary violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Village_Operation_Units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laju_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_French_Embassy_attack_in_The_Hague
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_AIA_building_hostage_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lod_Airport_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_404
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_472_(1977)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Naples_bombing

>>2349405
Then why is Japan not firmly pro-Israel?

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>>2350558
>public healthcare
wrong. 70 percent of hospitals in japan are capitalist
>public transport
wrong. rail in japan is capitalist https://theworld.org/stories/2025/01/23/japans-transit-system-is-private-should-other-countries-consider-the-same
>public housing
wrong. 80 percent of households rent from capitalist.
>high purchasing power
wrong. japanese wages are notoriously depressed
>low rent
wrong
>low real estate prices
wrong
>less work hours than the US
Their low working hours is nothing to brag about because it demonstrates their parasitic imperialist nature.
>>2352253
You simp for capitalism.


>>2352349
>socdem is socialism
Read the book, ziggerdengist

>>2349405
>>2350638
>>2350834
But people call me sakaist when I copy paste a post like this and switch out japanese with white and yamato race with aryan race

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>>2352474
They've got new 1000 sq foot houses in Tokyo for like $200k
>Their low working hours is nothing to brag about because it demonstrates their parasitic imperialist nature.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, first its
>'They work like 500 hours per week!!!!!!! They are slave ants hivemind brooo'
But now its switched to
>'Low working hours are bad, it's imperialism'
KEEEEEEK

Reminder that this shill is the well known Hazbin hotel spammer that simps for Trump in the /usapol/ threads.

Isn't it weird how first world countries are way more socialist than whatever neoliberal shithole Thirdworldists simp for?

>>2352593
They are redfash, not of the tankie kind, but straight up fascists. RT is sucking amerilard penis right now, and of all Western countries the US is closest to their neoliberal paradise with badass hetero strongman dictator and a badass theocracy. If a zigger or dengist is crying about a random country, then that country is guaranteed to have some kind of succdem policies in place where proles aren't turned into minced meat in factories, or, hold on, ziggers unlocked trench warfare again, so thats a new wholesome option too nowadays for third world proles.

>>2352573
Anyone that associates socdems with Japan's shitty and failing Keynesian policies is retarded

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>>2352628
Now remove the top 1% from US wages, keeeek
Atlanta vs Tokyo keeeeeeek (Atlanta still somehow more expensive)

>>2352628
Looking at the median wage when talking about owning a house in Tokyo is cheating. You can't make American comparisons because there's nowhere in America as ridiculously central to it as Tokyo is to Japan. (at best, there's California, but even that's dodgy.)

Japan's economy has basically been frozen since the 1990s. The upside of getting 1990s wages is that you're paying 1990s prices. (Until recently, where inflation has finally started to bite.) That has advantages beyond monetary value: never having to suffer sticker shock is nothing to sniff at. If your options are no real wage growth and no inflation, or no real wage growth and inflation (hello, Britain!), you may as well take the former.

>>2352637
Japan isn't really Keynesian, it's just institutionally owned by construction companies. Just as Britain is institutionally incapable of building anything, Japan is institutionally incapable of stopping building stuff.

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>>2352578
Atlanta median wage is 71,620 https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/-in-Atlanta,GA
Tokyo median wage is 41,640 https://blog.arealty.jp/tokyo-median-income/

The Atlanta house is ~1.62% cheaper relative to local median wages.
>>2352593 >>2352609
>zigger
stop being racist imperialists. The proletarians of Communist nations are far better of than Japan. The Japanese proletariat suffers greatly.
>>2352648
>source is credit suice
rigged capitalist methodology.
>>2352649
>Japan's economy has basically been frozen since the 1990s. The upside of getting 1990s wages is that you're paying 1990s prices. (Until recently, where inflation has finally started to bite.) That has advantages beyond monetary value: never having to suffer sticker shock is nothing to sniff at. If your options are no real wage growth and no inflation, or no real wage growth and inflation (hello, Britain!), you may as well take the former.
Wrong. lot of cope despite the fact that Japan's wages have fallen over the last decade while AmeriKKKas' rose.

>>2350494
is not because of that is because the US knew japan would quicly fall to communism without concessions to the proles and the island was of too much strategic importance to let that happen

>>2352648
slovakia is aes

>>2350558
I’ve lived in Japan for 3 years and let me tell you it’s not what it looks like from the outside. Economy is fucked really bad.

Salaries are low, even for professionals (250 000 yen to 300 000 yen when starting). After taxes you end up with even less. Then you have to pay rent. Now add insurance, salary tax, transport, internet, phone, etc. and you end up with very little free money.

Groceries keep getting expensive in short periods of time. Last year electricity went up from 25% to 45% depending on the region. Businesses keep closing (especially restaurants). Products getting worse (either more expensive or smaller/less items). Rice price doubled in less than a year due to corruption: the intermediary institution between retailers and farmers artificially raises the price by not releasing stock.

This country is doomed unless they allow in massive immigration and slow down on the capitalism. Both unlikely.

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Japan is COLLAPSING

Japan is basically the ultra UK in that its firmly hirearchical due to not being threatened by outside powers that would disrupt that hirearchy, mostly because they are an island country at the piss-end of the world. The UK however was much closer and intertwined with the center of civilization near it than Japan was, so as a result some of the civilizational milleu rubbed off on them and they became more than ignorant barbarians. Both of them essentially thought they had a god-given right to rule the world but because the UK was more cosmopolitain it actually could do that due to not hyperfocusing on "angloness". whereas Japan was late on the whole empire thing and tried to do anti-imperialism while also doing ethno-supremacism while also competing with every other empire that was much more experienced and capable. Both of them also abolished feudalism in a relatively bloodless process which allowed alot of the remnants of that system like the veneration of hirearchy and stability to remain.

>>2349412
Boy are you dumb as hell, material conditions define cultural circumstance. Japan's homogenus isolated culture breeds hirearchy and conformism which are inherently status quo supporting elements. Class conflict occurs everywhere but its not fucking universally the same across all lines, the nature of the geography will influence the trend of class clonflict in any given country or national amalgamation. The only way Japan will ever become truely revolutionary is to destroy the inherent barriers to actually becoming class conscious and in countries like Japan and Germany the inherent cultural architecture (as defined by the economic and historical base) is a massive blocker to said class conscious.

Japanese Red Army was based.

>>2349381
>not to mention that japan is one of the few places where you can go to a bar and talk to strangers and make friends as an adult.
This is one of the oddest and hyper-specific delusions i've read on this site.

>>2353515
Kek don't tell this guy of wages in Europe 🤣
How is mass migration supposed to fix wages blud 💀

>>2353515
you're describing the state of the working class world-wide, not just in Japan
these things are happening to all of us, and if we don't start organizing nothing will improve

>>2353515
at least housing is ok
?

>>2355497
What do you mean by “ok”?
Most people rent here, which is expensive for the low salaries. Buying a house for the average family person means paying a mortgage for life. More fancy modern houses are only for the wealthy.

Moving to a new apartment is also super expensive. You need to deposit like 4 times one month’a rent. Then you need to buy furniture again, as moving stuff from one place to another is so expensive might as well buy it new. You are basically stuck in one place.

>>2347890
why the fuck did mods ban for this its funny

>>2347838
JCP is just a succdem party now, some of them even want the army back

>>2355939
which is amusing cause the jcp and sdp entire shtick is protecting the constitution from any amendments, specifically article 9 which denies japan a standing army

>>2355815
This dude never heard of security deposits, like, did you ever rent or buy something in the US or Europe before? You know that you need to pay over 800k€ for a new house in any Western European city at this point. The average wage in the US is $30k if you remove the top 1%. Wow Bezos can afford so much more than his Japanesw equivalent. Sorry, but you can't deny that theres houses for like $200k and apartment for like $100k for sale in Tokyo.

>>2353515
This is literally the same situation as Europe, except in my city which is much smaller than Tokyo, the rent for a small studio apartment is 120,000¥ (700€) instead of 80,000¥ (450€). The wages are identical when starting out.

>>2355815
>Buying a house for the average family person means paying a mortgage for life.
Same, and on top of that you need to pay a part of the price of the house upfront.
>You need to deposit like 4 times one month’a rent.
This sounds like heaven to me, here the security deposit is one or two months, but you also need to earn three times the amount of the monthly rent in one month, and/or (but most of the time it's "and") have a guarantor who also earns three time the monthly rent in one month. I come from a poor family and this is fucking hell, I might end up homeless for a while this summer because of this.

>>2355815
Lol how the fuck do you think it is in the states?

>>2348041
>It's crazy how such an insular, globally irrelevant country, has so much false importants because they perfected the art of making smut cartoons for asocial perverts.
You're forgetting video games, music, synthesizers, comics/manga, most reliable cars and motorcycles, most reliable capacitors, unique cuisine, best seated toilets aka washlets or electronic bidets, pioneers in filmmaking and cinematography, pioneers in camera technology, high speed train exports to China, Taiwan and India (see: CRH2, THSR 700T and E10 Shinkansen), unique traditional art forms, etc.

>>2356377
>synthesizers
This, and even more.
Yamaha manufactures some synths, but also everything from prized grand pianos like the CFX to reliable entry-level instruments: guitars, violins, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, drum kits, electronic drum pads, absolutely everything. They even manufacture motorcycles. Yamaha stuff is everywhere around the world, just like Kawasaki motorcycles.
Most arranger keyboards used to play Arabic music are Korg keyboards, and they manufacture other ones used all around the world for other styles. The Korg MS-20 was one of the most popular analog synths in the 1980s because it was cheap and was well designed, and it's still popular to this day.
80% of the effect pedals used by guitarists are manufactured by Roland under the name BOSS, because they are cheap and their construction is solid as fuck. They also manufacture synthesizers.
Then you have Ibanez for metal guitars, and some other brands I forgot.

People needs to realize Japan was the China of the 1980s. Back then, Americans hated Japan just as much as they hate the Chinese now. It changed after the real estate crisis and the Plaza Accord, but Japan still has some serious engineering and manufacturing skills. It's not a "globally irrelevant country", far from it.

>>2356450
That’s in the past. University education has been getting worse for years now. Postgraduate education is in particular pretty bad and mediocre. Much experience and knowledge has been lost.

Japan has always relied on foreign advisors. They can’t really invent anything new. Just improve what already exists.

>>2355939
>you should just have to permanently rely on the US military forever, this is anti-imperialism btw
JCP isn't even for the military btw, they have the schizophrenic idea of just not having any military at all and convincing people that they can just rely on International Law like the UN for everything. How anyone takes that seriously is beyond me.
I have no idea what JCP you're talking about. Maybe you mean Reiwa Shinsengumi?

>>2349405
How did this braindead gibberish get any serious consideration here


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