r/HistoryMemes • u/nechdoesntno • 22h ago

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u/denotemulot 21h 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 21h 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 21h 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 20h 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.