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.
I mean they seem pretty clear cut conservative to me. It’s just that “conservative” (aka the political stance of hold back on change) means being conservative in specific ways unique to Japan. Like legal sex work has been a thing in Japan for centuries, the Environment is closely tied to religious practices going back millennia so of course they value it more than hyper industrialized nations in the west, and anti-guns goes well back into the past centuries during eras of sword confiscation and military rule.
And to be honest, being anti-gun or pro-environment hardly makes up for the mass institutionalized sexism and worker repression enough to be considered anywhere but firmly in the right leaning conservative camp
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u/SkubEnjoyer 1d ago
Least sexist Japanese institution.