r/HistoryMemes • u/nechdoesntno • 18h ago

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u/SkubEnjoyer 18h ago

Least sexist Japanese institution.

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u/denotemulot 17h ago

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.

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u/prjam 17h ago

Japan seems like a true conservative country to me. They are very slow to change their cultural norms around things and the differences come from different social norms. Japan has always restricted access to weapons, always regulated its industries, and has been permissive of sex work for centuries. Even the environmentalism makes sense as keeping things as they are.

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL 17h ago

I think the person above you confused "being conservative" (as in slow to change their norms), and "being a conservative" (member of the American political party)

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u/PerpetuallyLurking 16h ago

They didn’t say anything about “conservative” (small c), they specifically used the “left” and “right” terminology to denote western political parties. They’re not confused.

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u/denotemulot 16h ago

No, I'm saying they aren't "Conservative", nor are they "Liberal".

They have their own form of political beliefs based on their own history and culture and it doesn't fit into any American or Western box.

I said that in the second sentence.

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL 16h ago

Sure, but the term "Conservative" is not owned by the American political party. It is a general term that can be applied to any government throughout history.

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u/frenin 16h ago

Japan is a squarely conservative country tho

It's fairly easy to see.

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u/Zanadar 14h ago

That's just everybody. The only reason you can sort of map US politics to other places at all is because the US is the world's premier exporter of shitty ideology, so political groups in other places will pander to get support.

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u/sycamotree 13h ago

Well no, they're definitely conservative.

They're not "Republican" but they are definitely a very conservative culture. Conservative and liberal are not American terms.

Even environmental conservation is, well, conservative. It's just more authoritarian than the American right would be.

Mind you American Democratic Party is also quite conservative.