There will never be an Aristotelian/Burkean conservative party in Japan; the society is Confucian to the core. The best we can hope for is what the Abe faction of the LDP gives, which is Japan First without being militarist, and willing to continue the alliance with the US, along with the other rim countries, to protect themselves against Chinese hegemony.
>There will never be an Aristotelian/Burkean conservative party in Japan; the society is Confucian to the core. The best we can hope for is what the Abe faction of the LDP gives, which is Japan First without being militarist, and willing to continue the alliance with the US, along with the other rim countries, to protect themselves against Chinese hegemony.
I would have said that 10 years ago, but after trump and now with the high consumption tax and looming threat of huge amounts of ‘refugees’ getting dumped in Japan, there’s a lot of rightwing talk on Japanese Twitter and 2ch. If there was a person that could break through the normal crap politicking the Japanese do, you might see the ball start rolling. I mean, even the GET RID OF NHK guy got a set in parliament off a YouTube channel.