Japan's ruling bloc eyes solid victory in upper house election: poll

Go Go PM Abe! Get that two thirds majority!!

The opposition parties are not realistic for the present international affairs. So, many people will vote to LDP anyway. How long this political poverty will continue, maybe nobody knows.

So... to sum up, the LDP will win but no one can convincingly explain why they deserve to. Maybe it's because they don't.

A pre-election poll of vote prediction. That's all it is. A poll. The data that really interest will be the ones that will be produced on July 21. Where everyone will come out of any doubt.

In these elections there are two key points.

It will be the results that Yukio Edano's Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan can obtain. And also Nippon Ishin no Kai from Ichirō Matsui.

They will be the key to future governance in Japan. And the trend towards where the country will go. These elections will be the most important for the next decade.

At election time in Japan can be heard above the cacophony of loudspeakers with their hypnotically inane screams, the stultifying sounds of the usual suspects blowing their rightwing dog whistles and the obedient appearance of their domesticated electorate sleepwalking towards a predestined future dreamed by their masters. Yawn!

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Japan is a constitutional democracy in name only.

I looks , in practice, more like a benevolent controlling one-party system.

The other auxiliary political parties are like props in a play - to give the illusion that the people have real options federally..

I suppose, one reason is because the spirit for democratic change never really originated from within the soil and roots of the Japanese soul.

It was imposed on them

Election is a joke. Most japanese know little about everything, if not anything. Ignorance is the enemy of democracy.

dougthehead13July 6  08:42 pm JST

It will be the results that Yukio Edano's Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan can obtain.

I think gains by the CDPJ are the best that can be hoped for.

And also Nippon Ishin no Kai from Ichirō Matsui.

Why would conservatives vote for them when there's already the LDP? I expect that when these other conservative parties do badly their members will be rejoining the LDP.

I guess a substantial proportion of the voters miss the totalitarian military state. Fascism is what they actually want and are ready for. They have had no chance of learning the principles and merits of a democratic open society in their modern history, as it requires enormous trial and errors, sometimes with turmoil and rebellion. Only those people who were once deprived of freedom can truly know and value what freedom is.

@semperfi

more like a benevolent controlling one-party system.

Take the "benevolent" part out of your statement and it's OK.

Japan is just a one-party country like China and North Korea.

semperfiToday  12:04 am JST

.Japan is a constitutional democracy in name only.

I looks , in practice, more like a benevolent controlling one-party system.

It's benevolent if you're in the demographic the LDP counts on for votes. Like the whalers - good old boys like Shinzo Abe will make sure they're kept afloat with taxpayers' cash even if their zombie industry goes down the tubes.