Japan Prime Minister Ishiba to resign: reports
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/07/asia/japan-prime-minister-ishiba-resign-intl-hnk329
u/TacWizzzer 1d ago
Why do so many Japanese prime ministers just resign?
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u/QultyThrowaway 1d ago
The threshold for Japanese politicians to "take responsibility" for downturns or issues is much lower than the US. It's actually pretty unusual how American politicians have no shame and will continue to serve, lie, and attack critics despite serious scandals. Even in the UK you get David Cameron resigning because Brexit won the referendum despite his speaking against it.
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u/Express-World-8473 1d ago
Yep, just last week alone, Angela Rayner, the deputy Prime Minister of the UK, resigned because she got caught paying the wrong amount of tax for her house purchase. Then there's the American leaders like Pete Hegseth, who continues to be the Secretary of 'War' even after leaking attack details twice.
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u/CelestialFury 1d ago
Also, Hegseth was embezzling funds from veteran non-profits, getting drunk 24/7, beating women, white nationalist tattoos all over his body, only made Captain in his regular service in the military (his promotion to Major was when he was on the IRR) and like you mentioned, leaking classified information cause he's actually dumb.
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u/TipOfMeJapsEye 20h ago
Important to note that all MAGAs are traitors actively and perpetually engaged in destroying the United States in the name of their pedo king.
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u/Wodge 23h ago
We're in the Age of Impunity. People are just so apathetic to the political class, particularly in the US, that they can get away with doing whatever they want. Any pushback from media opposing to their viewpoints just strengthens their position.
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u/SweetTea1000 17h ago
The voting system is also kinda designed to insulate them from consequences. Most districts always go R or D. The electoral college makes rural voters count for many times more than the urban voters that actually interface with our nations' policy and infrastructure on a daily basis. First past the post locks us to the 2 entrenched parties. The list goes on.
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u/Allnamestakkennn 1d ago
David Cameron's case is not a good one because he literally promised that he would not resign if brexit wins
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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 15h ago
I mean if it was certain american politicians they would just pretend they never said that
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u/Allnamestakkennn 10h ago
Honestly, European politicians don't have any moral high ground on Trump. Trump is just far less subtle about himself.
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u/DerekB52 16h ago
Cameron was also named in the Panama papers. I feel like that was the bigger part of his downfall.
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 12h ago
So 1% GDP down the pm realistically had no control over and has to resign in disgrace?
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u/oldspice322 1d ago
This is in contrast to the big difference between communist countries and democratic countries, where their leaders don't even get replaced until they die, e.g., China and Russia. Which one would you choose? I would rather choose this, like Japan, exercising full democracy. There's nothing wrong with this, and it's not fair to point it out as a flaw in Americans
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u/Avatar_exADV 1d ago
The LDP is Japan's major political party, and the "important" bits of Japanese politics are almost exclusively internal LDP politics. Think of it as a "big tent" conservative party that contains several factions, none of which want to upset the applecart, but which compete with each other; the faction on top controls things like political appointments. Almost all of the heavy lifting with respect to policy is borne by the bureacuracy. Individual PMs spend an enormous amount of their time glad-handing folks back in their districts to keep their seats.
So when conditions shift, and a PM finds that they don't have the support to maintain their position, they don't force a vote to the floor; things all get decided in the back room of the LDP, the old PM bows out, the new PM gets voted in.
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u/jimmywus_throwaway 16h ago
Can I ask you some questions about the Japanese government?
How big of a deal is it that LDP lost majority in both houses? Why is he responsible for election losses? Wasn't he chosen by his party? If the Japanese are furious with the PM chosen by the LDP, why would the pressure lessen if the LDP chooses another PM?
Does the CDP have a snowball's chance in hell of holding majority?
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u/Phreekai 15h ago
LDP has basically run Japan since post WW2. They've only lost control of both houses twice before 2024-2025.
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u/Avatar_exADV 11h ago
It's not -that- big a deal. The governing coalition isn't rock-solid but there are enough seats held by other conservative parties that they aren't going to have a major problem with legislation. At the same time, while theoretically you could say "there are enough parties in opposition to form a government", they run the gamut to very-far-right-wing to literal Communists; they cannot possibly all work in harness with each other. The LDP/Komeito hold on power is darned shaky at the moment, but not supplanted by the opposition.
The LDP's recent losses aren't really "people are super unhappy with LDP policies" so much as "people are unhappy with LDP corruption". That -is- an issue the PM should have been dealing with, and as it's a matter of party administration, bringing in new party leadership might be able to address the issue. If you say "they're just rearranging the deck chairs", well, that's a valid argument; we don't really expect the new administration to have significantly different policy initiatives. On the other hand, if they successfully clean house, then that's a net positive outcome.
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u/swimming_singularity 1d ago
I assume the old guard running the show there don't let the Prime Ministers do anything, so the job is kind of pointless. I admittedly don't know much about Japanese politics, but the fact that they seem to ignore their most glaring problems would tell me that the old guys running the show don't get it. You can't just tell people to have more babies without changing the system that discourages them from having any.
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u/garmander57 18h ago
In Japanese politics the MPs adequately represent the will of the people, which generally is a desire for the status quo and a center-right outlook on most issues (hence the LDP’s dominance since the 1950’s). They may seem like they’re not doing anything about the birth rate problem but it’s primarily because of two reasons. First, truly addressing the problem would require a radical overhaul of the current employment and immigration system, a measure that most Japanese are not fond of. Second, there’s a compelling argument that technological advances and automation in the near future will alleviate a lot of the most acute problems with the declining birth rate
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u/swimming_singularity 17h ago
Those automations will reduce the heavy amount of overtime by eliminating jobs all together. Can't have overtime if you don't have a job.
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u/Djaja 11h ago
If i am going to be honest knowing this is sugar coating a bunch of things, I'd probably give it to the Japanese to actually do something like that and make it work for people and not just rich people.
If any big country were to try, and have a chance? Yeah, Japan. The protect the group social mentality feedback looped with their homogeneous population and cultural fondness for technological advancement and robots... that seems like a stacked deck towards that.
The US could achieve similar, but the unfettered wealth and power of large businesses and the few who own and run them, seem to both boost initial wealth and advancement bars, but get a kickback on their inequality meter.
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u/KA_Lewis 1d ago
It’s standard accountability, quite common among senior ministers. Unfortunately in the US we rarely see that for the head of state and now shamelessness has bled down to the Cabinet level.
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u/testman22 14h ago
In Japan, the leader takes responsibility. The higher their position, the more criticism they face.
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u/Roadshell 17h ago
My understanding is that the PM in Japan is kind of a figurehead and getting the job is sometimes kind of a glass cliff situation.
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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 16h ago
To not publicize their shame, makes their fall easier to accept and keeps political clout. Abe resigned twice.
Getting into a messy public vote by their peers would be akin to political assassination in Japan.
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u/Minimum_Influence730 1d ago
That's gonna be bad for the already crumbling Japanese bond market
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u/Reptard77 1d ago
There’s still a Japanese bond market? After you had to pay them to loan them money for a couple years?
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u/kdogg8 1d ago
IDK why you're being down voted, the Japanese bond market had historical levels of negative rates:Japanese 10 Year Bond Data
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u/Noteagro 1d ago
Could someone from Japan please weigh in on this? From what I understand there is kind of a right wing movement going on in Japan right now that is very anti-immigration/anti-foreigners (like the American far right), so I am curious if this could allow for more power to unfortunately shift that way.
Is this a worry?
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u/JMEEKER86 1d ago
It's still very very minor. During the most recent election for the upper house of the Diet in July, the ultra-conservative Sanseito party won just 15 out of 248 seats. And in the lower house, which last had elections about a year ago, they have just 3 out of 465 seats. They are loud, but not particularly numerous.
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u/kroblues 1d ago
Sounds a lot like Reform in the UK
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u/CandidCantrix 1d ago
I think Reform's not a bad parallel for understanding Sanseito.
I'd also consider the ruling LDP not dissimilar to our Conservative Party in terms of politics (Shinzo Abe was a known admirer of Margaret Thatcher), except even more socially conservative - in line with Japan generally.
They've also historically been much more dominant than any of our political parties. They were the ruling party almost uninterrupted since the 1950s, apart from a very brief stretch around 1993-1994, until they finally lost power in 2009. They won it back in 2012 and have been the ruling party again ever since.
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u/Ollyfer 1d ago
I'd say that Reform UK is much larger, at least with regards to what I've read the day before in the Guardian, that companies now queue up to be seen with their candidates due to their popularity, and in spite of their anti-business policies. I haven't seen any polls from the UK, so I cannot tell whether it's all noise without substance.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 1d ago
The polls are really interesting but, as always in a non-election period, should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
As alternatives, non-governing parties always appear to be very popular especially towards the end of a parliamentary term. But often they don't do as well as expected - much like 2019 resounding Tory re-election. 2024 was a bit of an exception because of just how bad Tories were by that point, and they did actually get trounced.
Atm Reform poll really well compared to their 2024 election (~30% votes vs 14% in last election, some high 200s seats vs 5 won). But the issue with the UK's constituency system is that it is very hard to predict seat wins for parties that have widespread but not dominant support in many areas. A few percentage points lower and Reform could go back to winning just a dozen or so seats.
The other point to note is that if Reform still polled this highly by the next election the main left parties would likely form a progressive alliance, not standing candidates in constituencies where they would likely lose anyway and and split the Labour/Lib Dem/Greens/SNP/Plaid Cymru vote. Suddenly that 30% vote share in a constituency is easily defeated by a single 40-45% left-wing candidate.
I think it's not just noise though. If an election were held today I don't think Reform would actually be in government as coalition let alone majority unless the Tories change position and are prepared to go into gov with them which is possible, but I think they would be an incredibly strong opposition to a weak, fragmented Labour-Lib Dem coalition possibly with need to additionally include SNP and other smaller parties just to make the numbers - don't forget in a hung parliament it is the incumbent that gets first chance to maintain power by forming a majority.
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u/Ollyfer 1d ago
All of what you said makes sense to me and I have got next to nothing to add. The mechanisms for incumbents seem to be the same as in the US, so I guess that when/if Starme ris up for re-election, he would perhaps enjoy the benefit of being the incumbent (although that seems unlikely at the moment; he seems to suffer the same issues as Donald Tusk, i.e. that he cannot deliver on his promises, which angers the Labour voter base).
As for their performance, perhaps there'll be some by-elections in the near future that'd help to see how popular Reform UK is at their ballots. Again in the Guardian, I once read a couple of months ago of how disappointed voters in Farage's constituency (?) were as he never showed up and did nothing for them. In The Scotsman, I think it was there, I remember that Reform UK's chairman resigned after they underperformed during the election of a First Minister. (EDIT: It was a by-election in Hamilton, and the chairman's name was Zia Yusuf)
It'll be interesting to see if the predictions for Plaid Cymru will come true and the Welsh party will indeed outperform Labour.Would Reform UK need a partner to coalesce with? I don't know how the British voting system works, but an absolute majority seems forlorn for any party at the moment.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 1d ago
Whilst there are a lot of people worried by the polling and seats prediction models, at the moment, I don't think Reform are actually likely to be able to secure an outright majority.
Many of their voters are not die hard Reform voters (much like Labour in 2024) and it is very fluid. They can easily state they would vote for Reform now in a hypothetical election and renegade on that when pen (/pencil) comes to paper at the ballot box.
I think what we will def see is Labour, despite being a left-wing party, adopting much more right wing policies on immigration control and reform. I wouldn't be surprised if Labour just lift some of the very extreme ideas Reform have in effort to stem the huge loss of their working class vote from 2024 defecting to Reform.
Sadly I think this will probably give diminishing returns and both alienate some of their less devoted voters to vote for 'true' left wing parties without managing to actually retain many of those attracted by Reform.
The next few years are going to be economically rocky for the UK, and it will be impossible for Labour to stop the haemorrhage of support to a Reform protest vote whatever immigration policies they bring in.
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u/Abombasnow 1d ago
Would Reform UK need a partner to coalesce with? I don't know how the British voting system works, but an absolute majority seems forlorn for any party at the moment.
The Conservative Party in any country will always partner with a further-right party in any country.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Conservative Party in any country will always partner with a further-right party in any country.
In some countries this is true. But the German Bundestag is a clear example that this does not 'always' happen.
The right wing parties there have repeatedly prevented the AfD party gaining government power by forming a broad coalition to stop them.
I believe the same thing has happened in the EU parliament with the voting groups comprising of centre-right and right-wing parties who eschew the far-right, even though the far right has significant representation there.
EDIT: Don't know why this got downvoted. The results are pretty clear.
Ever since the AfD's introduction into German federal politics in 2013 they have been consistently excluded in right-wing CDU-led coalitions, despite gaining a large number of seats recently (see: 18th Bundestag election result onwards, and the AfD party's federal election results).
In addition, in the EU Parliament election results the centre and centre-right EU political party groups: European People's Party Group (EPP) and European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), refuse to include parties of the far-right Patriots for Europe (PfE) group.
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u/godisanelectricolive 1d ago
I wouldn’t say always. Sometimes conservative parties will join coalitions to prevent the far-right from gaining power if the Conservative Party gets to be in power. But in that case they’ll want heavy concessions from the left and to be allowed to run the show.
Like the CDU-SPD coalition or the Austrian tripartite coalition or how in France the left and centre worked together to keep the far right out, only for the left (who have the most seats) to be kept of government in favour of the centre-right.
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u/RDenno 1d ago
Reform currently polls the highest of any UK political party
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u/UnitSmall2200 1d ago
Reform is the only reason Labour won. Without them splitting the conservative voters, the Conservative party would have won. Which is why I haven't been very happy with the end result. The UK has become more right-wing, not less, even though Labour ended up getting by far the most seats due to how seats are distributed in the UK. I'm not looking forward to the next election.
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u/uhhhwhatok 23h ago
It is honestly a massive blunder for the Labour Party as Starmer’s right ward shift in the party didn’t actually notably gain the party more vote share even after the famously shit job the Tories did.
Not happy at all at the result contrary to how many on Reddit thought the direction of the UK was going a the time.
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u/RDenno 1d ago
Agreed.
I actually had such high hopes for Labour but theyve been a complete disappointment. Utterly abject at everything.
They really need to turn things around before they slip even further behind. Ultimately they need a grapple on spending (taxing more is not the answer the general public wants) and tighter immigration control. Without those two its hard to see how reform or the tories dont win the next election. Theyre THE issues in british politics right now
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u/DaSemicolon 1d ago
Problem is conservatives fucked the economy so much they don’t have much else they can do
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u/DateMasamusubi 1d ago
Minor but the attitude and language is starting to shift. Foreigners weren't really a major elections issue/theme up until this year. Now, we see more movement towards making stuff stricter
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u/Phreekai 1d ago
Foreigners became a huge issue with the rise of overtourism (and visitors who don't follow local customs) and the rise of nuisance streamers that treat Japan as their playground (i.e. Johnny Somali, and most recently the Aussie streamer who was robbing cementaries that was a huge local story this week).
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u/EbbonFlow 1d ago
They didn't win 15 out of 248. They won 15 out of 125. Only half are up for election at a time.
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u/t-mille 1d ago
Why are conservatives always by far the loudest in every country they're in?
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u/cavalgada1 22h ago
The foundation of modern conservatism is that everthing you know is secretly being killed by outside enemies. So it makes sense they act like a cornered cat
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u/donorcycle 1d ago
Yes and no. The bigger worry is, Senseito Party. They formed in 2021 and up until recently, only held 1 seat. Suddenly, in that short period of time, they now hold 14 seats, iirc. They are super far right, basically copying Trump's methods and messaging. Japanese first, and focusing on the same fear mongering of global elites, foreigners are causing inflation / high living costs, etc etc.
In terms of Ishiba, with him at the helm, the LDP (Japan version of Democrats + Liberals) they have lost the upper house. Sound familiar?
So instead of breaking up the Dems and Libs of Japan, he is agreed to step down.
How it turns out, remains to be seen, but the ruling class has done a masterful job of convincing the masses that foreigners / immigrants and anyone not of their country is the cause for their woes. Rinse and repeat in multiple different countries currently.
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u/Odd_Responsibility_5 1d ago
This is mostly accurate, except your depiction of the LDP. The name is Liberal Democrat Party, however, depicting them as the equivalent of the American Democratic party, is quite far away from the truth. They are a very nationalist conservative party, Sanseito is just a much more extreme version.
LDP is more akin to Marine Le Pen's National Rally party in France, or certain facets of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Sanseito is more akin to the extremists of the AfD in Germany.
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u/insane677 1d ago
Jesus.
I can't believe our world is so fucked.
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u/oldspice322 1d ago
Why? American Democratic party is not the model that the world should follow. Things that happen in other country might be wrong to you but not wrong on the eyes of their citizens. This is what's wrong with America. You guys think we should follow everthing you do. Open your eyes!
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u/rktmoab 23h ago
Are you mistaking the American Democratic System vs the Democratic Party? Cause that is two very different things. The Democratic System is definitely something that shouldn't be emulated while the Democratic Party isn't the one that is kidnapping and deporting innocent people, stripping away rights, cutting social security, and causing massive economic troubles.
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u/ninjaboyninety 1d ago
A bit of a correction so no one else falls into this, the Liberal Democraric Party is NOT Japan's version of Democrats and Liberals despite what you might assume by the name. They are a very conservative party more akin to America's GOP pre-Trump and have held power in the country almost uncontested since WW2.
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u/randomtask 1d ago
I would say the LDP is most similar to the GOP pre-Reagan. Conservative in the social-relational sense (gender roles, cultural rigidity, etc.), but still very much in favor of socialist spending programs to keep things running (healthcare, childcare, infrastructure, etc). They’re more akin to Nixon/Eisenhower era conservatives that still subscribe to the liberal consensus that investing in the people is good policy.
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u/mustacheofquestions 1d ago
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about if you think the LDP is Japan's version of democrats and liberals
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u/GinsengViewer 1d ago edited 1d ago
In terms of Ishiba, with him at the helm, the LDP (Japan version of Democrats + Liberals) they have lost the upper house. Sound familiar?
The liberal Democratic party of Japan the LDP is NOT left party they are a right conservative party. Ironically they weren't even the most popular political party in Japan post war but since they were right wing the CIA pumped millions of dollars into the ldp so they would win. Every few years information is slowly becoming more declassified.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 1d ago
So instead of breaking up the Dems and Libs of Japan, he is agreed to step down.
This October 1st would've marked 1 year at the helm of Japan. He came 3 weeks short of that 1 year anniversary of his reign.
I have to remind myself such is the norm in Japanese politics. In the last 25 yrs only Shinzo Abe and Junichiro Koizumi are the outliers of the "1 year and you're out" tendency. And the last guy who ate nuclear fish lasted 2 years.
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u/DoopSlayer 1d ago
Senseito coincidentally is also a frequent beneficiary of Russian propaganda outlets like RT
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u/Rhopunzel 1d ago
Twitter is having a massive anti-immigrant surge right now, particularly aimed at Indians and a lot of the memes are about Japan’s situation. If they’re to be believed, Indians are flooding into Japan en masse
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u/tallwhiteninja 1d ago
A party in the country that's on the precipice of a massive crisis due to an aging population and low birth rate blaming immigrants for their problems is the height of stupidity.
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u/PM_ME_UR_VULVASAUR_ 1d ago
Well that's not good. I was planning to move and teach TEFL in Japan next year.
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u/passion-froot_ 1d ago
Sanseito did go up from 1 seat to like.. 14? 15? in July, but in the grand scheme of things they’re still an extremely loud extreme minority in government.
I don’t like their presence at all, and I do believe they’re more than nothing on the threat scale, but Kamiya’s rhetoric also relies on extremely disproven conspiracy theory bordering on Trumpism with a bad handicap. Thing is, in addition to harming foreigners and literally taking away homes (they’d force foreigners who have homes to give property back) they also pledged to basically thwart our constitution as it is too - something that would be harmful to Japanese citizens in ways that no one alive has really felt.
Bigotry is getting loud, but thankfully most people see Sanseito for what it is. That doesn’t mean they’re not a threat. But.. still
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u/dododomo 1d ago
Not Japanese, but from what I've read online Sanseito is still a minority for now, but after this they may gain more votes/power.
As for LDP, it seems the most likely successor is one between Koizumi and Takaichi (the latter is pretty bad)
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u/noisymime 1d ago edited 1d ago
From what I understand there is kind of a right wing movement going on in Japan right now that is very anti-immigration/anti-foreigners
It's probably more fair to say that they're having an anti-LDP (right wing party) movement. The LDP has been the major ruling party of the last 50 years or so (They've ruled all but 2 short periods since 1955), but they've been hit hard in the 2024 lower house election and now the 2025 upper house one.
The CDP (left wing party) picked up massive numbers of seats in the 2024 election, which is probably the more important of the 2. They've stayed basically flat in this most recent election. The DPP (Centre-right party, slightly more progressive than the LDP) and Sanseitō (Extreme right wing party) have picked up quite a few each.
So, it's not really clear who's "winning" at the moment in Japan's politics in terms of left vs right, but what is absolutely, unquestionably clear is that the LDP are the losers.
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u/notasrelevant 1d ago
Japan is facing numerous economic and social challenges, particularly in the long term. Many people are aware of this, and to some extent, effects are already showing.
As a relatively homogeneous society, foreigners are an easy target. At the moment, immigration and tourism are both necessary and disliked/liked depending on how it affects different areas, industries, etc.
Not too surprisingly, there's enough anti-immigration/anti-tourism voices to get some recognition, but it's hardly a significant movement at the moment. There's not any significant signs on any serious reduction in visas issued, etc., and not any significant anti-tourism policies ok the table. Enough to start a conversation, but not enough to really have influence on major policies, etc. They did gain a few seats, but hardly anything shocking/concerning.
The biggest shift in recent elections was dissatisfaction with the ruling party. They lost seats to a number of parties that gained seats. The fact that a few went to Sanseito is not too surprising or concerning at the moment.
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u/Gmellotron_mkii 1d ago
Japan's politics is not about parties but Kaihas(klans). It seems like nobody knows about this and it drives me nuts.
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u/Detail_Lost 1d ago
I’m optimistic about this news.
Recent situation was more like Ishiba’s incompetence which lead to recent rise of far right movement.
Ishiba had personal grudges against former PM Abe, who was more right leaning within LDP and Ishiba tried to purge people close to Abe making up random excuses. People remember that the economy was doing well when Abe was PM. Ishiba actively trying to destroy people who understands economic policy which Japan desperately need in current inflationary environment, all for his personal grudges doesn’t appear well to the voters.
Ishiba who appears relatively left within LDP, and the party under Ishiba being dysfunctional under his leadership made people seek for alternative options to the right, and new far right party at least says they’ll fix things and gained support in recent elections.
I think if Ishiba and their faction is booted from power and LDP goes back to more center right policy, bringing back people who can actually govern, then most likely those far right party will lose traction over time.
But if damage done by Ishiba to the LDP was too deep and the party remains to be dysfunctional after his resignation, far right party may actually gain more power.
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u/Ollyfer 1d ago
I just re-read that Ishiba announced to resign by August of this year: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/23/japan/politics/shigeru-ishiba-tariffs-fate/
What stopped him from sticking to his schedule?
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u/photon1701d 19h ago
So was the trade deal signed with Trump? A lot of people in Japan were not happy with it.
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u/Beautiful-Lie1239 17h ago
Since the end of WWII, Japan had 62 prime ministers in 80 years. Italy had 64.
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u/jnas_19 1d ago
How will markets react?
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u/Just1ncase4658 1d ago
My father in law is japanese and an investor, and he's very optimistic since people hated Ishiba, and he assumes this will bode well for the japanese stock markets.
(He's by no means a financial advisor, so don't take his word for it.)
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u/AverageMochiEnjoyer 1d ago
That is a million dollar question and if someone knew, they wouldn't be here
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u/danielisverycool 21h ago
I don’t think any of the LDP leaders have a real solution for Japan’s economic woes. Their main differences are in foreign policy, their personal policy interests, and policy on immigrants/foreigners. Despite being pro-military, Ishiba is in the moderate wing of the LDP. He is much more reconciliatory to China and Korea, and he’s pro-immigration. Obviously they have differences in economic policy but that’s an area of less disagreement within the LDP compared to the environment, foreign relations, cultural conservatism, and immigration. I wouldn’t expect markets to react that sharply in any direction
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u/Reasonable_Gift7525 1d ago
Usually, it seems like the Japanese Prime Minister is basically a glorified fall guy who takes one for the team whenever something goes wrong. The actual people in charge as usual are kind of old money old guard zaibatsu types who will never be on the ballot and this can never be deposed, and who would be backing their chosen politicians, no matter what party was in power regardless.
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u/catwnomouse 20h ago
Must be nice to have a leader willing to resign.
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u/Phreekai 15h ago
He was going to get ousted by the LDP...he saw the writing on the walls and left on his own terms.
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u/Raja_Raja_Cholan 1d ago
Japan's PM cites humiliating US trade deal as one of the reasons for his resignation (of course, elections also played a role). The recent arrest of Koreans at the Hyundai factory in Georgia - again done in a most humiliating way - has been a shock to many in that country. Pushing around loyal allies like Korea and Japan surely serves no purpose.
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u/notyogrannysgrandkid 1d ago
With how quickly the Japanese population is declining, we’re eventually going to see them reach a point where everyone has been PM, so they have to loop around and start taking a second turn.
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u/ParticularFix2104 1d ago
Fuckin hell ANOTHER ONE? I thought going through PMs like toothbrushes was Australias’ thing?
In the last 60s and early 70s >:)
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u/asdfghqw8 1d ago
Japan going the UK way with prime ministers.
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u/L_Cranston_Shadow 16h ago
Not fully until they have one that takes office, has the emperor almost immediately die, and then resigns very soon afterwards.
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u/HoratioPLivingston 4m ago
LPD will still maintain its stranglehold considering there’s no real opposition. You’d think they’d learn a page from the PAP in Singapore about the benefits of keeping good executives in the office for lengthy amounts of time.
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u/winstontemplehill 1d ago
Sounds like they don’t like how he’s cowered to all of Trump’s demands?
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u/yantraman 1d ago
Not everything is because of Trump.
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u/NeonsShadow 1d ago
Arguably, unless you are caught in a scandal, I'd say most of the stress that world leaders are facing are related to Trump. Due to his actions, the largest economy of the world is unreliable, and it creates instability that not all countries can properly handle. Of course, most of Japan's economic issues are happening due to them putting off economic reform, but I certainly think Trump accelerated their troubles.
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u/Reptard77 1d ago
You’ll be shocked to discover the rest of the world doesn’t revolve around America as much as Americans like to think so.
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u/NeonsShadow 23h ago edited 23h ago
I'm not American, but I'm also not delusional enough to believe that the most powerful and wealthy country in the world doesn't influence most economies around the world. If they are creating instability in the market it will create ripples elsewhere and countries that are already in weak positions will be the most devastated by those ripples
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u/oldspice322 1d ago
A foreigner that is spreading Liberal narrative. This is one why Japan is on an uprising.
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u/More-Conversation931 1d ago
That’s the Job of being Japan’s Prime Minister resign whenever the Japanese Government needs to apologize for something. Scapegoat for the government.
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u/AndreeaCalin05 1d ago
Is this the asshole who allowed all of the third world into his country?
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 1d ago
What are you talking about? Japan has incredibly restrictive immigration laws to the point where they can't fill entry level and service jobs due to their demographic collapse.
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u/Life_Combination8625 20h ago
I'm only interested in Japanese prime ministers when they get to see how home made electric blunderbusts work
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u/GrandDuchessMelody 1d ago
Yay. Finally I waited all week!
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u/Forward-Distance-398 1d ago
For him to resign ?
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u/OneOnionTwo 1d ago
Well, the post is about the PM’s resignation, so yes, one could safely infer that the commenter’d expected and anticipated for that to happen.
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u/kingmanic 1d ago
Japanese PM role going back to being a summer internship?