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    1. **From Bloomberg’s Yoshiaka Nohara:**

      Nguyen Dinh Viet, a mechanical engineer with a degree from one of Vietnam’s best universities, moved to Japan 18 years ago. He started working at a temporary job under contract with a Toyota factory, then won a permanent position with one of the carmaker’s major suppliers. He and his wife own a two-story house and two cars, a green Prius hybrid and a black Mitsubishi compact. One of his sons has Japanese citizenship and attends college studying mechanical engineering, just like his dad.

      Until recently, Japan, rapidly aging and starved for labor, seemed willing to accept foreign workers like Nguyen. But this summer an upstart far-right party, called Sanseito, campaigned on a nationalist agenda and promised to tackle the “foreigner problem,” calling for more limits on immigration. Orange-clad campaigners gave speeches at a train station near Toyota’s headquarters, holding signs that read “Japanese First” and “Don’t Destroy Japan Any Further!”

      In July, Sanseito won the second-largest number of votes of any party opposing the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP. Just five years after starting the party, building a following on YouTube, Sanseito now holds 15 of 248 seats in the upper house of parliament, ranking No. 6. That showing is making Nguyen and other immigrants fearful. “I don’t really understand why people are against me,” he says, after wrapping up a week at work. “I pay taxes and make my pension contributions, and I haven’t received anything more than the Japanese people, not even a single yen.”

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    2. DoomedKiblets on

      Far right has been nutty and against foreigners for a while, but recently it has ramped up and due to misinformation campaigns, spread drastically.

    3. julieroseoff on

      foreigners who judge Japanese politics with their left-wing Western vision… I am so happy to see the extreme right explode just for that. You destroyed your country with your ideology and now you are forcing the Japanese to think like you.

    4. If Twitter prohibits monetization, Sansei to will vanish immediately. The accounts supporting them are those seeking impressions.

    5. AffordableTimeTravel on

      PSA: Japan is being infiltrated by manipulators online the same way America was hit by disinformation trolls and bots in 2016.

      The internet, news and even govt. will have you believe that the conservative voice and ideology is more plentiful and common than it actually is, artificially propping up support for 参政党.

      Like the other nations that have experienced the same thing, they only want to control the way you think, to have you believe the change they intend to impose is right, or outside of your control. 十人十色.

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