Japan Conservatives push for military revival, reduced human rights

[Mr Khan]

Player2 said:

Kasz216 said:

Huh.  Based on their economic policies of going from SUPER stimulus to, Ungodly giant stimulus Ii thought they were supposed to be the LEFT wing.  Guess it's Berlusconi all over again.

That there are super japanese warhawks is really no surprise really.

I mean, they're stuck in an area with "dangerous" countries on the upswing, and still forbidden to have a "real" standing army by an ally, for a war that happened over heal a century ago.

Had we pushed their government to pass a change allowing them to have a standing army.  Chances are their army wouldn't be much bigger then the JDF... and there probably wouldn't be such a huge sentiment towards a lot of these measures.

 

Berlusconi isn't really left wing or right wing. He just does whatever fits his interests.

He started his political career in the Italian Socialist party. He left it when the tangentopoli or mani pulite corruption scandal become public and founded his own party, Forza Italia, supposedly a right wing one. Many ex-members from the Italian Socialist party joined Forza Italia too.

I doubt the japanese politicians are the same.

Japanese politics are kind of similar in that regard: lots of defections and unwieldy parties, although from what little i've read of Italian politics, Japanese political parties seem to live longer.

LDP is much like Russia's "United Russia," in that it's not conservative per se, it's just the "party of power" that perpetually runs things, and so is an unwieldy combination of moderates, mild authoritarians, nationalists, and free-market libertarians.