Conservative Takaichi makes 2nd bid for Japan ruling party leadership

Like Ishiba she favours tax hikes in investment income tax so is a big no-no.

All we need to know, as reported by Asahi:

“Takaichi said her economic package of measures would be known as ‘Sanaenomics’ and mirror the direction of Abe’s policies that focused on ‘three arrows,’ including monetary easing and fiscal stimulus measures.”

Is she still taking photos with neo-Nazis, promoting positive books about Hitler, and opposed to same-sex marriage and spouses having the right to keep their original surnames? Or has she completely changed. Voters might be interested in this.

She is for a strong Japan to stand up to the US and China. That’s why she’s popular.

Trump and Takaichi, let's go! What a world.

She is for a strong Japan to stand up to the US and China. That’s why she’s popular.

Popular?

No, thanks. We don't want to return to the dark days of nationalism.

Move forward, please - not backward.

a crowded race with a record number of candidates.

And Takaichi is the worst of the lot.

She is for a strong Japan to stand up to the US and China. That’s why she’s popular.

These views got her up to 9% in popularity. Imagine how high her popularity might soar if she had alternative views that better matched those of the majority of Japanese society.

She is for a strong Japan to stand up to the US and China. That’s why she’s popular.

Popular?

among the conservatives. If you listen to what she says, she doesn’t kowtow 磕頭 to the superpower US or China. She’s pro Japan.

Top notch policies, a pretty smart woman, and doesn't back down when pressed by Chinese hypocrites "diplomats".

Compare to Koizumi's "I will make this country a better place for everyone", LOL, yeah right. And the rest of the candidates who favor "making it easy to fire employees", ex-goldmansachs who cares for no one but his own investments, and a dinosaur grasping for last breath.

The difference between the sky and mud.

She’s the only one who’s got the balls to remove the buoy from the Senkaku waters, keep the male family name, change article 9 and visit Yasukuni.

"the need for 'strategic' fiscal spending"

Sure let's spend a pile more money the government doesn't have on her pet projects.

What a nice pool of candidates has the monolitic Jiminto.

So they either have to pick for old seasoned ones borned by privilege with a silver spoon in their mouth like Motegi or have the nepotism boy who wanted to fight the enviroment issues just being all sexy to the ultra nationalists far right winger Takaichi.

So things might change for the worse,Japan and their main political party have no recollection of innovation and progres.

quercetumToday  08:46 pm JST

She’s the only one who’s got the balls to remove the buoy from the Senkaku waters, keep the male family name, change article 9 and visit Yasukuni.

Oh fabulous. None of which makes any positive difference to the general public whatsoever, but I bet geriatric conservatives just lap it up.

quercetumToday  08:34 pm JST

If you listen to what she says, she doesn’t kowtow 磕頭 to the superpower US or China. She’s pro Japan.

She's pro herself. She kowtows to right-wingers and ultranationalists, parrots the garbage from their diseased brains, and they back her in return.

Conservative? commemorative photo with Japanese neo-nazi group or recommendation for book applausing infamous dictator, Takaichi is clearly icon of Japanese far-rights.

Thank you Simon! Listening to her press conference, her slogan is like the Japanese version of MAGA. I don't know why they're all out there doing this flesh pressing. The citizens don't get to vote, it's the LDP so the Japanese really need to get out and vote out all the LDP at every election, especially the upper and lower house. If they retain power, they'll know that even with all the corruption and scandals the populace still believe in them. Then watch them go to town with all their policies and watch the people whine and moan again.

The US Govt. should refuse to speak to any Japanese polly who visits Yakusuni. It is vile beyond description that this shrine honors Class A war criminals. Any Japanese polly who bows down there should be cut off from the US forever.

A politician who will take a 'cautious stance' on the issue of surnames whilst ending Japanese trade with China and South Korea by trotting along to the Yasakuni Shrine. Fun times ahead!

By 'human capital' does she mean workfare? And conscription to buff up the ranks of the newly militarised defence forces?

I finally understand. Yes, I'm slow on the uptake. But according to this thread and every single one I've read, there are no good politicians in Japan at all. The best one is extremely bad. You can't please some of the people all of the time, you can't please all of the people some of the time, and you can't please all of the people all of the time. In this case, you can't please anyone any time.

Very strongly recommended. Better rethink more than twice if for any not understandable reasons considering to elect anyone else and not her.

Still waiting for someone to tell us what is the 3rd arrow of Abenomics.

ogtobToday  03:36 am JST

Still waiting for someone to tell us what is the 3rd arrow of Abenomics.

A catchy-sounding metaphor for nothing in particular.

Desert TortoiseToday  12:32 am JST

The US Govt. should refuse to speak to any Japanese polly who visits Yakusuni. It is vile beyond description that this shrine honors Class A war criminals. Any Japanese polly who bows down there should be cut off from the US forever.

Quite right. Unfortunately it was the US Government, or rather the US occupation authorities, that created the circumstances for these creatures to thrive. They let certain 'useful' war criminals out of prison, like the grandfather of Donald Trump's top international sycophant Shinzo Abe, and stood by while they took charge of the Japanese government and did a huge whitewash on the atrocities Japan had perpretrated, giving rise to the obscene fallacy that the Class A war criminals were victims of 'victor's justice' and that enshrining them at Yasukuni was therefore fine.

Nationalism need not be Fascism. We all know that Natioinalism is rampant in China today, but if it were not for it;s aggressive military buildup and behavior towards it;s neighbors, it wouldn't be a problem.

Post WWII Japan has suffered from a long negative nationalism producing a Heiwa-Boke mentality that was fine until now. But with the wotld now polarized into the democratic nations and the Russia-China-NKorea-Iran crowd, Japan needs to boost it's sense of nationalism.

It is not a return to Imperialism but a recognition that the prosperous and peaceful life that Japanese have enjoyed for the last 80 years must be defended.

OssanAmericaToday  08:44 am JST

Nationalism need not be Fascism.

It would be if people like Takaichi had their way.

But with the wotld now polarized into the democratic nations and the Russia-China-NKorea-Iran crowd, Japan needs to boost its sense of nationalism.

I don't like to think how they might go about doing that.

It is not a return to Imperialism but a recognition that the prosperous and peaceful life that Japanese have enjoyed for the last 80 years must be defended.

The LDP isn't worth defending. Neither is the deeply rotten political culture it perpetuates.

I don't know why they're all out there doing this flesh pressing. The citizens don't get to vote, it's the LDP so the Japanese really need to get out and vote out all the LDP at every election, especially the upper and lower house. If they retain power, they'll know that even with all the corruption and scandals the populace still believe in them. Then watch them go to town with all their policies and watch the people whine and moan again.

Exactly. Japanese citizens do not have a direct say in who becomes the PM. Even with scandals, Japanese citizens do not vote out the LDP. The immense concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few elder senior party members shows history regressing and feudalistic elements revealing.

OssanAmericaToday  08:44 am JST

Nationalism need not be Fascism. 

This is lip service. It’s what comes after this is wgg ha at you want to say

*But with the wotld now polarized into the democratic nations and the Russia-China-NKorea-Iran crowd, Japan needs to boost its sense of nationalism.*

This is gaslighting. The Japanese character

It is not a return to Imperialism but a recognition that the prosperous and peaceful life that Japanese have enjoyed for the last 80 years must be defended.

Again gaslighting and trying to fly under the radar. Japan would return to imperialism if it could. Just call it what it is.

quercetumToday 02:44 pm JST

Japanese citizens do not have a direct say in who becomes the PM.

Trying this line yet again, are you?

As you have been told many times, they do have a direct say in a general election, where the parties' leaders (and therefore prospective PM) are known. Just like other parliamentary democracies.

If the LDP chooses someone that the Japanese people don't like, the people can vote for someone else at the next general election.

Japanese citizens do not vote out the LDP.

This statement is **provably false**. The DPJ was in power from 2009 to 2012, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Japan

quercetumToday  08:34 pm JST

If you listen to what she says, she doesn’t kowtow 磕頭 to the superpower US or China. She’s pro Japan.

She's pro herself. She kowtows to right-wingers and ultranationalists, parrots the garbage from their diseased brains, and they back her in return.

Good observation. I also believe she’s parroting and merely saying what the conservatives/nationalists want to hear. After she is empowered she can slowly create her own platform that is pro-Japan.

For a woman to become PM in Nagatacho, you have to be savvy and get the votes from as many factions as possible. Her traditional and conservative values are trans-factional.

Oh fabulous. None of which makes any positive difference to the general public whatsoever, but I bet geriatric conservatives just lap it up.

To become prime minister in Japan, you don’t say what the average citizens want to hear. They’re not the ones who will be voting. They do not have a direct say in the election.

The US Govt. should refuse to speak to any Japanese polly who visits Yakusuni. It is vile beyond description that this shrine honors Class A war criminals. Any Japanese polly who bows down there should be cut off from the US forever.

I disagree. Dialogue is what’s needed.

If all the presidents and prime ministers in the world were females, countries wouldn’t be talking to each other.

Simon FostonSep. 10  11:41 am JST

OssanAmericaToday  08:44 am JST

Nationalism need not be Fascism.

It would be if people like Takaichi had their way.

Doubt anyone in Japan today wants to return to the military controlled fascist dictatorship that Imperial Japan was in the 1930s and 40s. At least not seriously.

Doubt anyone in Japan today wants to return to the military controlled fascist dictatorship that Imperial Japan was in the 1930s and 40s. At least not seriously.

I don’t know, those guys at Yasukuni…

quercetumSep. 10  02:51 pm JST

It is not a return to Imperialism but a recognition that the prosperous and peaceful life that Japanese have enjoyed for the last 80 years must be defended.

Again gaslighting and trying to fly under the radar. Japan would return to imperialism if it could. Just call it what it is.

Absolute nonsense ans usual wumao propaganda. Worry about your own country being an actual militant dictatorship right now today. Japan and it's people have prospered more in the past 80 years than in all of their history. There exists no reason why anyone with any sense would want to "return"to imperialism.