@AJEnglish Its cause is also this Japan's current PM herself who only demands to Iran, but dislikes the negotiation with Iran since March despite offer from Iran, and shifts the blame of domestic naphtha shortage to domestic distribution.
Japan's current Takaichi Govt made intelligence agency bloated like prewar fascism era, with no even something system to stop abuses of power such as check by the Diet or justice. #TakaichiOut
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A woman who kick-started her career by fabricating her resume, who shilled for pseudoscientific subliminal tapes promising personal transformation and predatory consumer loans in TV ads, has become the Prime Minister.
Did it never occur to anyone how grotesque this is? Just what exactly were the people who backed her seeing?
@rumireports@JustinMcCurry@BBCNewsJapan
#SanaeTakaichi #Japan #JapanesePolitics #Scandal #LDP
The problem is not that Sanae Takaichi is abnormal.
The problem is that she continues to serve as Prime Minister——
brazenly, shamelessly, without consequence.
The deepest rot lies in a populace anesthetized to madness,
and a sycophantic, wretched press
that refuses to call a disease by its name.
The Prime Minister insists they "had no idea" what their own campaign was doing. Ignorance is incompetence. Deception is a crime. Either way, a severely flawed character has slipped into the highest echelons of government.
【Sanae Takaichi】 An arsenal of twenty smartphones. Three Gmail accounts tethered to each device. Synchronized across four major social media platforms. An AI-driven assembly line churning out 100 to 200 videos daily. This is organized manipulation of public opinion. This is a crime against every voter.
Japan was already a dictatorship.
Please report on Takaichi's misdeeds to the world. The Japanese media has remained silent.
The Japanese people suffer daily under her misrule. They strongly desire her resignation or arrest.
The Japanese people love peace, and no one wants war.
@BBCWorld Japan's current military- first PM who already reduces even public medical assistance and endangers million patients to balloon arms race budget will waste more tax money to fawn this tyrant.
“ #Japan, The Merry Merchant of Death”
https://t.co/OYSAxCKLlH
@BBCWorld It's clearly constitutional violation.
And, the deterioration from the country where had distance from the war as possible to "merchant of death" state.
“Takaichi had publicly denied the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese armies during WWII; how can a person refuses to accept the history to be a peace maker? Imaging if German prime minister denies the Holocaust, what would happen in US and in the western world?”
https://t.co/ESe5lJmWjP
The most ironic thing about postwar Japan is that its defeat was not only military.
It was civilizational domestication.
Japan rebuilt its national pride, social order, and sense of security under American protection — then performed the role of “Asia’s white country” according to Western standards.
But the fatal weakness of this model is simple:
no patron lasts forever.
No empire guarantees permanent protection.
No master promises never to sell you out.
Now Japan is trapped between two collapsing illusions:
America’s declining global authority, and China’s return as the civilizational power Japan once copied, feared, invaded, and briefly humiliated.
That is why anti-China hysteria in Japan is so intense.
It is not confidence, but the panic of a country watching the postwar order that gave it identity, status, and psychological safety begin to crack.
Japan still talks about “Indo-Pacific strategy” as if it were a great power shaping Asia’s future.
This is a country with decades of stagnation, scarce natural resources, shrinking strategic autonomy, and a GDP smaller than it was a decade ago — already surpassed by India.
A defeated fascist empire, once built on colonial plunder and war across Asia, now imagines it can reinvent itself as the moral architect of regional order.
The comedy is almost historical.
Japan does not want a “free and open Indo-Pacific.”
It wants Asia organized around its fear of China.
But fear is not strategy.
And delusion is not power.
In the end, this is nothing more than nostalgic role-playing by a washed-up empire.