Japanese politics

>>71285742
I think the more important question is: why does their logo contain wypipo?

>>71285742
the DPJ won the election once but it has to do with the LDP's political organization

>>71285742
Because an opposition party is incompetent.

>>71285742
Because the real battle is settled beforehand.
A lot of political balancing and negotiations within the LDP can produce higher quality politicians than true democratic elections

>>71285882
How is one party motivated to change without competition? I don't understand how that would produce anything but worse politicians because there's no incentive

>>71285959
there's cutthroat competition inside the party, that's the whole point

It's a bit like how sometimes a monarchy (or any other hereditary dictatorship) can be much better than a democracy, since the monarchs are groomed for power, they're not just random demagogues.

Japanese liberals are just anarchists from the hippie movement era who sort of believe the world must become like John Lennon's Imagine, whose random and irresponsible political views are ironically protected and unquestioned by the American militaristic empire.

Only the LDP do things based on realism or sometimes machiavellianism.

>>71285742
>single party state
Canadian education, huehuehue

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List of political parties in Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Japan

There are 2 times of regime change in 1990s in Japan.
There are 2 times of regime change after 2000 in Japan.

>>71285742
Political competition is very limited (internet campaigning is prohibited for example). Regional party machines à la Tammany Hall are still strong.

what come to my mind are:
a) LDP covers a wide spectrum of strata as it originated from a union of big parties and is comprised of conservative/liberal/socialist/etc.-oriented factions
b) japanese people’s preference for a “de-facto standard” thing
c) modern japanese apathy about politics led to political inertia (people think like “everything relevant is decided by bureaucracy anyway”)

LDP is a party of centre-right, stands in the American side.
It's centre-right, but not small government. Therefore they made many debts.

Their political structure is similar to that of Russia or Singapore.
During the past 60 years, the Liberal Democratic Party has ruled for 55 years.

>>71286430
It used to be the case that bureaucrats decided policy while politicians appeased their constituents with public works projects.

>>71286584
read this>>71286366

>>71286610
Then it is not 55 years, but about 50 years.
not a big difference

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The biggest opposition party leader.
Hysteric woman of Chinese nationality.

>>71286584
No it's not.
I understand you Koreans can't imagine what it's like to be united and not under militaristic dictatorship so I am sorry for that.

>>71286430
>conservative/liberal/socialist/etc.-oriented factions
you're saying that like it's normal for those factions to be in a long-lasting union.

LDP was founded with the support of conservative bureaucracy, keiratsu and yakuza. Even CIA gave them funds throughout the 50s and 60s.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/07/20/national/u-s-admits-cia-gave-ldp-money-in-1950s-1960s/

>>71286652
It's in the 1955-1990 only. Because it was the era of Cold War.
Japan needed a stable government in the era.

>>71286861
CIA used the same model with the Christian Democratic Party of Italy. The first post-war election was in fact falsified because it was won by the communists.

DC and the whole Italian political system collapsed in the 1990s under the weight of enormous corruption scandals.

>>71287008
You seem to be a knower, Slovak anon.
Your posts are informative

>>71287008
Same here with our Christian Democratic party, except for the falsified election

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Japanese left-wing is so shit

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>>71287476
Abe is not far-right.
In fact, far-right criticizes Abe in Japan.

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How shit is media in Japan? Is it as shitty as Western outlets (including RT)?

This stuff broadcasts in the US on terrestrial TV and Radio. Dunno why.

>>71287674
Wow, Obama shouldn't have spoken, just listened at Hiroshima.

>>71287674
Abe looks cute

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How do you want your party logo, senpai?

>>71285742
Because it is practically a single-party state, whether the Japanese themselves are willing to admit to this or not.

because, in Japan, biggest opposition party is liberal shit media like CNN.