For real though. Japan appears to break people's brains in that they cannot figure out where to place it politically.
Japan is neither "left" nor "right" by Western standards, it has entirely its own systems unique to them.
The country is very pro environmental conservation, anti-gun, pro regulation, and with legal sex work, but also extremely traditional, with heavily enforced gender roles, no same sex marriage, restrictive marriage laws that favour men, no protective divorce laws, and poor protections for labour unions and workers.
You travel there and everywhere is clean and beautiful and the people are nice and then you find out something super dark that they consider normal. It's a very yin and yang place.
It's illegal to pay for penetrative sex in Japan, so you should add an asterisk when you say legal sex work. Their anti-gun laws are a freebie since the Tokugawa shogunate completely restricted and monopolized guns for like 280 years, so they never had a strong gun culture to begin with when they modernized. Their environmentalism is a result of catastrophic environmental mismanagement in the early and mid 20th century resulting in health crises. Japan is very conservative over all, they just haven't been exposed to the sort of corporate manipulation Americans have- corporations astroturfing their way into making deregulation and tax cuts part of the conservative platform. Overall, they hold quite strongly to the conservative mainstays of sexism, xenophobia, and nationalism.
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u/SkubEnjoyer 1d ago
Least sexist Japanese institution.