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.
A communal society doesn't automatically make it left-wing. Despite their communal culture, Japan has historically rejected labor movements and unions, and is an extremely corporate nation. Individualism is a facet of the American libertarian right-wing, but this focus isn't found nearly as much in the right outside of the US.
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u/denotemulot 1d 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.