LDP Election just finished up.
Abe used to dance around questions about whether or not Japan was the aggressor in WWII, saying things like, 'oh the historians are still debating that, we should hear out both sides of the debate,' while Takaichi openly says that it was a "war for security" and justified under self-defense.
She's also in love with the idea of war with China of course. There was one anon here who was adamant that Ishiba would be pushing for a Japan able to detach from its absolute dependence on the US and work more with China, but like the typical centrist he is, he just resigned to give way to this freak lmfao.
Wait, dude got less votes in the run-off with one candidate eleminated? lawl
china would absolutely steamroll japan in war at this point. simply by virtue of having more materiel and population. realistically though in any war between china and japan the usa would step in on the side of japan and btfo china
>>2508017US-China war will never happen, just like US-USSR never happened, or UK-France (on the mainland) didn't happen since after Napoleon.
Direct peer wars between advanced capitalist countries don't happen because both sides have a lot to lose. Wars under capitalism happen because the ruling class needs to eliminate overproduction of capital and delete excess labor to improve profit rates.
But peer level wars go much further and destroy useful capital and many capitalists will die as well. They are not suicidal. WW1 and 2 happened because capitalist countries got hijacked by mentally ill fascist psychos. Thats why the capitalist class cracked down on fascism after WW2. Because fascism hurts them as well.
So WW3 will happen (is already started) but it will be a continuous series of proxy wars like Ukraine, Gaza etc. Next one is maybe Venezuela or Taiwan. These wars serve the purpose of sending capital to die in explosions so that profit rates are maintained. And of course there is the other benefits of carving out spheres of influence etc.
US-China war is psyop to distract the populace from the endless series of proxy wars that will be the New Normal for many decades to come.
>>2508026>WW1 and 2 happened because capitalist countries got hijacked by mentally ill fascist psychos. LOL. First of all Fascism didn't exist come the start of WWI. Second of all WWII was greatly desired by the overwhelming majority, practically all, of the German, Italian, and Japanese bourgeoisie, who saw record profits throughout it. You can't separate their capitalist class from the war, thats just post-war propaganda justifying the rehabilitation of those capitalists.
>Thats why the capitalist class cracked down on fascism after WW2. No, that's just because of the same reason Hitler was imprisoned after the Beer Hall Putsch: capitalism worked fine, so the fascists trying to destroy the bourgeois democratic system are nuisances. But in countries where the capitalist system wasn't so secure, fascists were indeed placed in power.
>>2508004Noone in Japan is calling for war, not even the most loony rightwing groups like Sanseito. The issue is revising Article 9 so Japan can have its own military and stop depending on the growing number of American bases across the country. Until Article 9 is changed to some extent, Japan is effectively stuck with the U.S. presence. But the left strongly opposes any revision while also wanting the American bases gone, leaving the country trapped in this strange, self perpetuating cycle.
Cant revise Article 9, cant have a real military.
Cant have a real military, must rely on the U.S. for defense.
Dont want U.S. bases, but cant defend without them.
>>2508045They dont want to remilitarize to kick out the US, they just want to tag along in US wars, like Abe wanting in on the Iraq War. Basically, they want to act as the first line of defense for Taiwan against Chinese reunification.
>>2508050Why would they want that though?
I get the feeling combat would be in Japan since an invasion into China is unlikely. Japan is sadnwiched between China and US
>>2508056because they're fascists and fascism is suicidal
>>2508056You could ask Ukraine, why did they want a war with Russia? Ethnosupremacism causes delusional judgements.
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Hello /pol/
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Aww you forgot the Israel trade statistics, shill anon.
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Woah, the Xisrael spammer is a zogtard, who would've thought
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China is an ethnonationalist fascist country and heavily class collaborationist and isolationist. You should be trying to emulate China instead of criticizing. "China but for whites" is the only viable path forward for the Right in the 21st century.
>>2508009thats actually a known cognitive bias, if you are presented with two option that seem different but overall as good as the other, and you add a third choice that is almost identical to one of the option but simply a bit worse, the similar option will appear more attractive
Feminist pyrrhic victory
>>2508121China for the whites? R u guys going to start putting white peoples in sweatshops making sneakers for 10 cent each? That is the cost of capitalist development that people sitting on the top (i.e the West and co) often ignored
>>2508136Wignats don't care. They would rather live in a 99% white country that's poor rather than a 70% white country that's rich.
>>2508004>She's also in love with the idea of war with China of course.Good. The faster those islands are occupied and set on the road of socialist construction the safer and healthier it's population will be, released from this jap culture that mutilates their psyches.
>>2508129she's not a feminist at all
As a Chinese diasporoid I honestly would not feel bad for any Chinese residents that get fucked over by her. Why would you move to JAPAN of all places as a fucking Chinese lmao, you have to be so severely lacking in basic historical knowledge
>>2508229Many of them seek for better quality of life. Such as weekends off and better salary
>>2508236Isn’t Weidel just a puppet and the real leader a man behind the shadows?
>>2508566nta but China has weekends tho? and it's not like Japan is know for its awesome work culture
>>2508566>Many of them seek for better quality of life. <Such as weekends off In japan? lul wut?
>>2508035Not to mention that even if you ignore all your points (which are all correct) and argue that WW2 happened because "fascist psychos" hijacked liberal states, I'd really like to ask that Anon what exactly he thinks is going on in the US right now.
>>2508599they want anime desu land desu becaus chinese cartoon suck desu anime is the best desu desu
>>2508121>China is an ethnonationalist fascist country-130 autism score points award
>>2508035>WW1German bourg were already proto-fash at the time. They were also the same crowd who ended up funding Hitler and the NSDAP, and profited from their second attempt in 1939-1945.
Their descendants continue to be rich German porkies today.
Why are the japanese such chuds?
>>2509836Germany has a negative birthrate. It's just that they get a lot of migrants that keep the population increasing whereas Japan doesn't . A lot of other countries also have negative birth rates.
>>2509840The nation was collectively mind broken when they lost the war.
>>2509852Japan had a positive opinion of China for years after the war. The modern intense hatred of China stems mostly from the time of the Bubble popping.
Can someone explain what's up with the Japanese Communist party? What are they like? From a brief internet search it seems they're basically Eurocommunists?
>>2509852Then why were there so many communists there back in the second half of the 20th century?
The real truthnuke that many people don't want to hear is that the internet has been the most powerful tool for the ruling class since the invention of the printing press. The whole online-right-wing phenomenon, glowies genesising the net-culture on imageboards, which then spreads to real life happened in Japan too, just a decade earlier.
Serial Experiments Lain was made in 1998 and already talks about this, something we would only see happening in the West by the end of the 2010s.
>>2509836>>2509840>>2509930Is it in humanity's nature to drive itself to extinction?
>>2509940Depends on if you believe in human agency, I believe there is far less of that in the digital era than there was in the 70s let alone the 1800s when a revolutionary could just move a town over and change their name.
>>2509903They are not revolutionary, they basically say that their immediate goal is using bourgoeis democratic means to unseat the LDP. Their large membership seems impressive until you realize that its collapsing rapidly since the vast majority are super-elderly and are dying. Aside from that the Teacher's Union is the only area they have any influence.
>>2509947You have to admit Teacher’s unions are a pretty solid base, essentially since it’s carried them this far past all the violent New Left stuff in Japan that tarred JCP by association (airport protests, JRA self crit sessions, the bassist from Les Rallizes Denudes hijacking a plane to the DPRK). If Japan resists charter school nonsense they can always come back and eventually force something good out of the Democrats.
>>2509940You can extend that to life itself, maybe we are living through one of the Great Filters of the Fermi Paradox, about 300 years to get off the home planet the moment industrialization hits before Climate Change destroys everything. Maybe we are one of the lucky ones because we had Engels & Marx right at the turn of the change of the mode of production from feudalism to capitalism while other intelligent species in the universe didn't have a chance at communism so early in their capitalism stage. Thinking that its like the transition from the slave economy to feudalism and boom, run away greenhouse effect and you're dead, game over.
>>2509956Based on previous extinction events, especially the Permian, I have no doubts that life on earth will likely continue until the sun expands too far, including in the event of nuclear apocalypse. My bet is on North American black bears and their descendants dominating the land after humans are gone.
Another resounding RadFem revolutionary success, to be remembered right next to the Election of Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher.
>>2508229There's so many Chinese gusanos living in Japan that are about to get the "Mexican MAGA patriot deported by ICE" experience
>>2509903Social Democrats with more nationalism
Uhh, why expect the US to btfo China instead of losing its naval and air fleets?
This entire thing smells like the Japanese Empress writing poetry on the expedition of Japanese forces to bail out Baekche from the Silla-Tang alliance. Protip: the expedition never returned.
>>2508180They believe it‘s the amount of whiteness that inadvertently creates the wealth so they aren‘t even considering that possibility.
>>2511324I only see two liberals
>>2508045The jsdf is one of the strongest militaries in the world
Its only not a military in name
If war breaks out between Japan and China, how long will it take for Chinese to overrun and assrape the Loli Tentacle Gooncave Island?
>>2508004so they're getting a clown too. surely there's going to be a backlash to this: consolidation of the left behind the communists as every creeping neglected social problem is exacerbated and the economy unwinds.
japan is cooked if negative growth and negative interest rates continue.
>>2509836if we follow the trends it's possible
>>2508013>Thatcher.Fucking gross.
>>2516803Komeito was okay with all those things until a week ago.
>>2508056They don't want the PRC to control the maritime routes that go through Taiwan's waters
https://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/aik25/2025-10-27/2025102701_01_0.htmlTakaichi wants the US to place nuclear warheads on the Japanese islands.
>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi revealed in her edited book “Study on National Power” (published by Sankei Shimbun Publishing) released last September that she had requested the deletion of Japan’s national policy, the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, from the country’s Three Security Documents, calling them “an obstacle.”>According to the book, before the Three Security Documents—which serve as Japan’s “guidelines for a war-capable state”—were approved by Cabinet in December 2022, Takaichi considered the phrase in one of them, the National Security Strategy, that stated Japan would “uphold the Three Non-Nuclear Principles,” to be contradictory to another passage declaring that “the Japan–U.S. alliance, including the provision of extended deterrence (the nuclear umbrella), will continue to be the cornerstone of Japan’s security policy.”>Even if Japan continues to uphold the principles of “not possessing” and “not producing” nuclear weapons, Takaichi wrote that, regarding the third principle—“not permitting the introduction (of nuclear weapons)”—she feared it could “become an obstacle in a situation where the ultimate choice would be between protecting the lives of citizens or maintaining the Three Non-Nuclear Principles,” and thus requested its deletion. >>2539644Casus belli for China? “Japan has WMDs”
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