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Apraxin posted:Looks like LDP/Komeito are officially over the 320-seat mark, according to the Asahi. Shinzo Abe with a parliamentary super-majority, 5 years after he was turfed out with approval ratings of sub 20%. This loving electoral system. Is this just a reflection of the fact that they basically have to vote for either the LDP or DPJ, or does he have actual support?
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Kenishi posted:I think the thing I find even more horrifying or I thought the main problem was the Bank of Japan refusing to expand the money supply? I've read somewhere that it's a case of central bank independence gone wrong. Has Japan had any hyperinflation crisis in the past to make it scared of inflation?
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is the fact that the echo chamber is so bad they can't figure out how to fix it. Its the only thing that makes sense to me short of just claiming that everyone at the top just has a "gently caress you, got mine." mentality which I'm sure it does.
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But if they don't invalidate it why bother fixing it at all? Haven't the past like, three elections been unconstitutional?
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dilbertschalter posted:yeah, let's just equivocate out everything here. Washington and Jefferson maybe, but there is no way a sane person could say that Jackson was not a war criminal.
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MediumWellDone posted:Is this the thread to bitch about old men do stupid things? Maybe they want to restart the TV cartels from the 80's… So when they say "close down", does this mean they're basically turning every public university into a technical school?
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Mercury_Storm posted:Yeah maybe they'll vote for the DPJ again without even blaming the first unprecedented natural/nuclear disaster that happens on said party that hadn't seen power for decades! There was a story in Reuters about how unpopular Abe is now, but I suppose there's not really anyone else for people to vote for.
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Chomskyan posted:So today the cabinet approved a new plan in which the 6-month remarriage wait time for women will be reduced to 100 days. Also if a woman can get proof from a doctor saying she's not pregnant then she can remarry before the 100 days are over. Also the only reason even this much has been done is because it was literally forced on the current administration by a supreme court ruling. So the Supreme Court can make them do this, but can't make them fix their malapportionment?
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Is it now officially the JCP?
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The emperor is going to abdicate and there are no posts in this thread! I noticed the stories all said the law would have to be changed to actually let him abdicate - will there be any trouble getting such a change passed?
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Apraxin posted:LDP just got trashed in the Tokyo metropolitan elections. Down to 23 seats out of 127, tied with Komeito and barely more than the Communists. They've never done this badly before, not even the year they were so unpopular that they lost the national election to the DPJ a few months later. Did the DPJ win or did the governor's party win? I heard she was on the right of the LDP anyway.
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What kind of campaigning does the JCP do? I feel like they never get mentioned in the news stories I read so I have no idea what their strategy is.
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So what are liberal voters going to do?
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They should really try a different name.
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icantfindaname posted:The CDP seems to be polling better by a large margin than the DPJ did at any point post-2012 Interesting but also  that an opposition party polling at 17% is an unprecedented level of support
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Oct 26, 2017 02:57
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Oh man, now the LDP will only win 55% of the seats in the next election instead of 60%.
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The fixation on Japanese Koreans when they're less than 1% of the population is crazy to me. I guess if people wanna be racist they'll find someone to be racist against.
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If the LDP is dominant and the DPJ (or whatever we're calling them now) is weak and also doesn't really have an ideology, what leads people to join/vote for the DPJ? Is it people who got rejected from the LDP for some reason? People who don't like the LDP but can't bring themselves to vote for the Communists?
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captkirk posted:I'm enjoying journalists who report on Asia being surprised by a completely common trend for Japanese PMs. Nikkei isn’t getting their money’s worth
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I thought the reason was because they wanted to keep a unifying symbol around and so they made sure no one spoke a word about him during the war crimes tribunals
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Mr. Fix It posted:just going off of vibes, kishida feels center-right for the current LDP. he's tight with the same nippon kaigi folks that abe was, but seems less stridently conservative. i doubt he has any actual strongly held beliefs and is just triangulating whatever will keep the base engaged and attract enough swing voters to maintain power. Okay but that’s a funny picture everyone needs to chill out
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Lammasu posted:My mom was big into that. She once said that Japan was going to eclipse America militarily as well. She is kind of racist. This was *the* thing everyone was freaking out about in the 80s. If you showed someone back then the story about Nippon Steel buying US Steel they would have a heart attack
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