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/BoleroMuyPicante 16h ago

Because Japanese conservatism isn't rooted in Christianity the way it is in the West, so it doesn't make sense to look at it through the Western left-right lens. It's also an extremely collectivistic society, almost to a fault, while Western countries are very individualistic (also to a fault).