I am ver glad that many leading Japanologists fully understand, and rightly explain, the realities of Japanese politics, unlike some misleading media reports.

リベラルな若者がなぜリベラルな政党を支持しないのか問題。世代ごとにリベラルのイメージが違うのは一つの答えだと思う。ただ、それとは別に、相手を否定することへの拒否感が下の世代ほど強くなっている気がする。文章でも挑発的な物言いや口汚い悪口がウケなくなっている。

Everything is striking when you don't understand it

Elections are contests between opposing sides, so focusing exclusively on one side can never yield a rational explanation. Attributing the LDP’s victories solely to the party itself or its backers opens the door to conspiratorial thinking or racially biased cultural essentialism.

Comments fixated on the winning party’s supposed ideology may sound clever, but they are essentially on the level of a middle school student newly interested in politics. Lacking any grasp of real life, one remains a child, no matter how much intellectual-sounding jargon is used.

People who believe elections are decided solely by issues they personally care about tend to view their own country’s politics through the same narrow lens. It is unreasonable to expect them to offer insights into Japanese politics beyond their severe limitations.

A party wins an election in your country, and foreigners, who can barely read your language, suddenly explain that the result was obviously decided solely by the winning party’s stance on a handful of issues that happen to matter to them.

Japanese twitter is not like that, Japanese people have actual opinions and interests.

Why is American reporting about Japan so consistently shitty? Takaichi did not START a diplomatic spat with China. China started it!!

ここでもUltra-conservative。こういう決めつけ報道って残念な気分になるな。日本の海外報道も少なからずその傾向があるけど。

👉️自らのイデオロギーを左寄り（リベラル）と自認している人の投票先は、40代以下だと自民党が最多だったことがわかった。10～30代では34%に達し、次いで国民民主党が10％、中道改革連合を選んだ人は9% リベラル自認の10～30代、「自民に投票」3割　中道は1割届かず https://t.co/kxb7rfx8dE

昨年は参政党のさや氏が「みんなのお母さんにしてください」と演説し、今年はリベラルが「#ママ戦争止めてくるわ」のハッシュタグ運動で盛り上がる。 右派も左派も、連帯と包摂を謳うときに母性的なものを利用しているのは危うく見える。

Japanese artists draw something slightly edgy or transgressive and all the quote tweets are like “omg wtf 0_o they should’ve dropped a third nuke” like it’s 2026 dude come on

大英博物館サムライ展「侍の半分は女性」報道について 調べたらメディアだけの問題とも言い切れなさそう。バックランド博士自身がインタビューで「Half of the samurai class were

The overall level of this exhibition is such that its official release even includes the blatant error that “Tokugawa Ieyasu fought Toyotomi Hideyori at the Battle of Sekigahara.” One might reasonably suspect that it was supervised by a redditor.

If one defines a class as including family members, it is therefore not incorrect to say that half of the samurai class consisted of women. However, this fact has absolutely nothing to do with the absence of warfare in the Edo period, contrary to what the British Museum implies.

and officially recognized samurai, that is, bushi of established lineage and hereditary occupation. In the Edo period, samurai came to denote high-ranking bushi who were entitled to formal audiences with the shogun or daimyō, making the term even more explicitly status-oriented.

The museum appears eager to emphasize that social mobility was high during the Sengoku period and that “anyone could become a samurai.” Even in this period, however, there remained a distinction between temporarily hired servants labeled samurai…

During the Sengoku period, however, a more colloquial and functional usage emerged, in which samurai could also refer broadly to anyone hired as a combatant.

In accordance with its etymology, the term samurai came during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods to refer also to bushi who were direct retainers of the Sei-i Taishōgun.