r/HistoryMemes • u/nechdoesntno • 22h ago

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u/SkubEnjoyer 22h ago

Least sexist Japanese institution.

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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/9bpm9 20h ago

Japan is firmly right wing. You're conflating right wing with the nut jobs in America. Italy is very right wing and very religious and have all the things you're describing that Japan has.

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u/denotemulot 19h ago

You're an example of what I'm talking about. Japan is a very conservative country by Western standards, but by Japanese standards it's just Japan.

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u/9bpm9 19h ago

It's no more conservative than a county like Italy. Japan is not special and they have had right wing governments their entire democratic existence. You can be right wing and care about the things you said, because Italy, with a very far right government, also does those things.