Japan Shifts Further Right With Its First Female Prime Minister
Japanese lawmakers elected the country’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative. Javier C. Hernández, our Tokyo bureau chief, visited several places in her home region to trace her rise.
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Taikaiechi ❌ Thatcher✅✅
Anti-immigrant well good luck with an aging population and the fact that working in Japan already looks like a pain.
Japan, to note, is a one party system
Ewww .
Mexico, Japan, Ireland,… can we do it in 2028, America????
Most people in the comments don't seem to know or act like they don't know what type of immigrants are the main problem now. Get out of your leftist bubble and check what was going on in Japan in the last few months. That lady is the right person in the right time. Japan learns quickly from the mistakes of other countries like the UK, Germany, France that are being devoured by islamic immigrants.
Immigrants are doing the jobs that Japanese don’t want to do, like working in kitchens or konbinis. Who will do those jobs? Sound familiar?
The next Hitler will be a lesbian in an interracial marriage. That's not even a joke. Look up AFD's leader.
They're eating the deer!
President Trump is NOT anti-immigrant, he is anti-ILLEGAL immigration. There’s a huge difference between the two.
Takaichi are not anti-immigration.
Ironic to see her benefit from that new feminist movement only for her to turn around and say, no you shouldn't enjoy that. Just me
Make Japan great again
"how do we fix the population and society crisis?"
"ah yes, by keeping the status quo the same as it way it was before!"
Right leaning parties always never fail in setting up their country for failure. There's no sense of progression and improvement if you fetishise the traditions to a unhealthy degree.
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This woman is goated AF
Without immigrants, Japan will sadly die. With its birthrate so low, it is inevitable. Very sorry to see this
They're not far right ideologies, they're moderate ideologies. They seem far right only because how far left the left has become over the past 30 or so years.
yes because every problem japan has is because of the tourists and immigrants 😹😹
Japan is a dying aging society. Good luck without embracing immigration nor policies that help families.
Once muslims arrive they all know what happens. They know what is happening to Europe, that ideology takes down civilizations !!!
As long as japan keeps to its declining birth rate… no one can fix it
A fine leader
Japan needs immigration but their xenophobia knows no bounds
Didn't isolation get them into lots of problem in history?
Good
How do you go further right in japan, they literally only have right😂
98% of your country is native Japanese and you're worried about immigration and tourism? When you have a declining birth rate?
So many countries are trying to be “whatever country 1st” soon it’s going to point outwards to other countries lol warrrrrrrr
Yay woman president!! Progress 😎
What l find funny is that the name of the conservative party she joined is Liberal Democratic party , How ironic 😂😂😂
Sweet dude, let them ruin their own country. Idgaf
Nobody wants to live in Japan either. Foreigners want to go visit for a holiday.
Yeah definitely don't want to go live in the most xenophobic country in the world thanks
All their citizens are killing themselves, they should be begging us to stay, but obviously we're not idiots so we won't go
Ironically, the people supposedly kicking deers may be tourists and not immigrants… Mere excuses for their racism
Far right is better than Far Wrong ✔️❤️❤️
They have 1-3% immigrants. Smdh
The immigration population is 3%.
What are the nativists in this comment section going to think when they realize that Christians are 2%?
Well, this is very interesting 🤔 まあ、これはとても面白いです🤔🇮🇹🇧🇩🇺🇸
Anti-immigration campaigns are fine till they start making stuff for a bunch of dumb people believe it and run with it. There are 0 instances of foreigners kicking deer as much as they wanna blame chinese tourists lmao
In the material world, there is always Conflicts, wars, violence, crimes, hatred, mental & physical illness… All these DO Not exist in the Kingdom of Spiritual World. There are only unalloyed devotion and Pure Love of Godhead 🙏🙏🙏