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A sexy submarine posted:If you're measuring apathy by voter turnout, Japan has a turnout usually in the 60s. Last election it was 67% and in 2009 it was 69%. By contrast the voter turnout in the U.S. was 57% in 2008 and 38% in 2010. I'm sure it helps that politics usually makes the headlines on the big national newspapers, and that election posters, at least in the small town that I live in seem to be up all year round.
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Latest round of opinion polling from the Asahi is up at http://www.asahi.com/politics/update/0627/TKY201206270711.html. Highlights: Support for the Noda government holds steady at 27%, unchanged since April. 56% of respondents oppose the Sales Tax increase, 32% in favour, although hilariously only 29% approved of the Ozawa faction's opposing the bill, with 61% disapproving. To cap it off, 78% said that they have no expectations that a new 'Ozawa Party', if formed, would achieve anything good - this despite breakaway parties usually drawing a high level of support, at least in the short-term. I had no idea Ozawa was this unpopular. Elec posted:Also I am really looking forward to Toru Hashimoto opinions, because the guy frustrates me to no end. No comment on whether this is related to Hashimoto's rumored complex about his dad being a gangster. Apraxin fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Jun 27, 2012 17:27
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Samurai Sanders posted:Say, has anyone in here ever seen Japanese political cartoons from newspapers or whatever? Do they exist? Weirdly enough, some of the TV networks seem to have an in-house cartoonists, whose work is blown up, mounted on card, and displayed during news discussion programs.
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Aug 8, 2012 05:41
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Sheep posted:Renho is like half-Taiwanese and I remember there being a gigantic stir when she was heading those cost-cutting analysis panels because people were all like "how could a non-pure blooded Japanese understand Japan?" and other such bollocks because she was threatening to suggest cutting funding to all sorts of random peoples' pet projects. Koizumi cut him out of the LDP back in 2005, but he must be bringing a tremendous amount of pork back to his district in Okayama because he keeps being re-elected, despite being a scowling, uncharismatic rear end in a top hat, on top of his awful views. Apraxin fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 6, 2012 |
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Sep 6, 2012 16:19
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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.
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Dec 16, 2012 19:46
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punk rebel ecks posted:How hosed up is the Japanese criminal justice system? Is it true that they have a 99% prosecution rate? How do people stand by this? (Of course, they'll try to make it a slam dunk by extorting a confession.)
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Jun 12, 2017 01:30
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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.
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Mitsuo posted:Seems like a more relevant discussion might be asking about the state of fire codes in Japan - the pictures I saw people linking of the building layout had a single stairway and apparently the door to the roof was padlocked? If that's true, that is some dire Triangle Shirtwaist poo poo.
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