‘Japanese-first’ Sanseito party goes into election leveraging unease about foreigners
‘Japanese-first’ Sanseito party goes into election leveraging unease about foreigners
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Russian funded as well.
If you wonder why many right wing parties all over the world suddenly are on the map, it's Russian funding them
I feel like this is kind of downplaying the fact that Japan is easily one of the most xenophobic countries in the world, with a healthy dose of racist as well. If you arent a born ethnically Japanese in Japan you can never be a citizen of Japan, only a national. This party has nothing to do with that being the case. Japan is just that kind of a country, and even more extreme than their fellow colonial powers in that regard. They just get a pass from the west for it because they are asian…
This is a dormant tendency in at least half of mankind in any country you look. That's why it's so easy to commandeer if someone has the means by which to do so.