„Japaner First“: Wähler zurück Trump-inspirierte Partei, um Japan wieder großartig zu machen, gewinnt bei Schlüsselwahlen groß
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/japanese-first-voters-back-trump-inspired-party-to-make-japan-great-again-wins-big-in-key-elections/articleshow/122807502.cms
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Oh sure… Color me surprised. A xenophobic, work till you die, set in their ways, aging culture resonates with Trumpian conservatism.
Yea, this has worked so well for them so far… 🤦
Oh good, the population with a plummeting birth rate, shrinking and aging population, and urgent worker shortage will blame their problems on immigration.
Isn’t their population about to collapse if they don’t get some foreigners up in that sob pronto?
Japan with 98% ethnic japanese with the most xenophobic policies and cultures possible thinks they are a victim of foreigners and not their own governance failings. Theres no limit to stupidity.
As a foreigner living in Japan myself, it’s disheartening to see Sanseito’s rise to prominence. I’m somewhat comforted by the protests against them, but it still sucks.
Edit: oh, also, btw, Sanseito has ties with Russia and Russian bots spread fake news on their behalf. Shocker.
Evidently watching everyone else try this shit and it failing wasn’t enough evidence.
As someone who doesn’t have the first idea of what Japanese politics is like but lives in America I don’t like the sound of that.
I saw a comment on here about how Trump’s rhetoric is translated into a very sanitized version of what he’s actually saying. The commenter said they translated some of his wildest moments accurately and their japanese friends were aghast by the shit he actually says.
Japan is already very Japanese first
>“The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people’s livelihoods by resisting globalism. I am not saying that we should completely ban foreigners or that every foreigner should get out of Japan,“ Sohei Kamiya said in an interview with Nippon Television after the election.
Someone misses the Tokugawa shogunate.
Why is the stupidity so adept at spreading?
They’re so homogenous, aren’t they already „Japan first?“ What is the perceived outside threat here? Westerners coming to teach English?
> Sanseito began on YouTube during the Covid-
19 pandemic, where spread conspiracy
theories about vaccines and global elites
Le sigh
???dont they barely have immigration? And they are an island nation and I dont think many boats are going to japan. Why are they so pissed off?
Japan is already one of the most rigidly conservative countries in the world, how much farther do they wanna take it it? They’d close the borders entirely if they could
Hey I’ve seen this one, it’s a classic.png
I have to credit Trump with really turning the tide — my whole life „progress“ was the mantra. And things have improved dramatically since I was a kid. But it turns out appealing to people’s shoddy memories and feelings of nostalgia is like a hack. Most people remember their ignorant childhood world as better, so if you promise to take them back, they’re in.
Progress was fun while it lasted.
Well I guess I can’t go to Japan now
I think COVID broke a lot of people’s brains.
can’t they see how well things turned out in the west?
Haven’t all their policies since forever been Japan first? They’re not known for being the most open and welcoming country to my knowledge. This is just a bunch of grifters looking to capitalize on something that needs far left policies and a decade to fix. But hey, it is much easier to blame a small subset of the population and get robbed by the very government they elect.
Wtf
Please don’t put tariffs on Gundam model kits.
Maybe they’ll pull through like Germany did. Idk how the world doesn’t look at America rn and go „no thanks“
Oh look, a country that has been making bigger strides towards cooperation with NATO and Ukraine suddenly seeing an upsurge in an alt-right party that just so happens to be soft on Russia, would likely hamstring their economy, and has been appearing on news networks banned by the EU for being a disinformation arm of the RU government. What a surprise.
https://www.reuters.com/world/japanese-first-party-emerges-election-force-with-tough-immigration-talk-2025-07-21/
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/07/17/-japanesefirst-party-denies-ties-with-russia-
https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15912020
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/politics/russia-influence-japan-election/