Riptide360 t1_jd3atwo wrote on March 21, 2023 at 3:13 PM

Reply to comment by williamis3 in Japanese leader heading to Ukraine for talks with Zelenskyy by Auburn_Value_1986

That is way too much to pin on any one person to fix. The decades of declining birth rate is front and center Japan’s number one problem. No point in arguing about the return of the Kuril islands if both Japan and Russia are both losing population each year. https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japan-s-successes-in-boosting-birthrates-should-not-be-overlooked

williamis3 t1_jd3gmfd wrote on March 21, 2023 at 3:51 PM

Mate, the LDP have been in power for Japan for 70 years. They’re all cut from the same cloth.

Tokyogerman t1_jd4w1b6 wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:15 PM

The LDP has a lot of different factions with very different ideas. Japanese politics are not just decided by the party in charge, but in case of LDP also which faction of the party

williamis3 t1_jd5wmj8 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:30 AM

Japanese politics has been decided by one party for 70 years. Their factions range from far-right to conservative to moderate.

Wow. What a great choice a lot of people have.

Tokyogerman t1_jd5xpmv wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:38 AM

You said, they are all the same, I said, there are a lot of different factions, which you just agreed on it seems as the far-right and the moderate are very far apart and Kishidas opponents in the "faction wars" last time were a far right Abe favorite and a guy with quite progressive views even, who I favored.

The discussion about vote choice is a quite different one from what you were claiming.

Tokyogerman t1_jd4w2gs wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:15 PM

The LDP has a lot of different factions with very different ideas. Japanese politics are not just decided by the party in charge, but in case of LDP also which faction of the party