Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
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PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. Specialty: Japan's Politics/Nationalism/Pop Culture. Views my own. RT/Likes ≠ endorsements
Tokyo/Chiba, Japan
Joined August 2008
I've been quoted in the Guardian's coverage of Japan's Upper House election: ‘Japanese-first’ Sanseito party goes into election leveraging unease about foreigners.
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Former PM Kishida seems to have a good social media team. This video is better than the content current Prime Minister Ishiba has been posting. He calls on voters to vote for the LDP, so that Japan can have capable, decisive leadership. (with epic music).
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The conservative Sankei Shimbun picked this photo of Prime Minister Ishiba for their article about his pre-election day speech. It resembles an image of Hyogo assembly politician Nonomura Ryutaro, who went viral for crying during a press conference about fraudulent spending.
石破首相が消費減税批判「責任持たない政策は政策といわない」 東京・蒲田で最後の訴え .. また、外国人問題への対処などで先鋭的な主張を掲げる一部野党を念頭に「今さえよければいい、自分たちさえよければいいという政治では、国は滅びる」と語気を強めた。.
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RT @GaijinBaseball: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are currently the worst team in NPB, are 10.5 games back of a playoff spot and have all their….
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RT @BookReviewsAsia: On the podcast: James D Brown ("Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard So….
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RT @DeepinJapanPod: I’m all for having respectful conversations and avoiding political confrontations with Japanese people—especially in pu….
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RT @JamesDJBrown: Suzuki Muneo (77), who has returned to the LDP, is struggling to generate support ahead of the upper-house election. Suzu….
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As this article notes during "the prewar era and for a time after World War II, the party urged violent revolution." (This thread was reposted because the JCP deleted and reuploaded their "100 year" chant video.)
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A viral post shares a well-known image from the manga Barefoot Gen, in which ideologically impure Japanese were denounced as "hikokumin" (traitors) during WW2. A Sanseito candidate used this word to describe left-wing protesters who showed up at one of his campaign speeches.
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The Japanese Communist Party posted a video claiming its core stances haven’t changed in 100 years mentioning "nuclear disarmament" (which didn’t exist 100 years ago). They also mentioned being "pro-peace," but they used to advocate violent revolution.
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The childhood friend of the man tries to defend the mother's remarks, and both her and the mother are nearly arrested by military police. Credit to lawyer Kodama Koichi, who shared the video and wrote:. 「A son is conscripted and sent off to war. Just telling his childhood.
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An example of how "hikokumin" was used: here is a clip of a historical drama that aired on NHK this year, where a man is heading out to war and his mother is denounced as "hikokumin" for saying she wants him to survive the war and come back alive.
Sanseito candidate Hajikano Hiroki called left-wing anti-Sanseito protesters "hikokumin" - traitors (literally "non-citizens") a term that was commonly used in wartime Japan to label dissenters as traitorous.
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NHK Party leader Tachibana Takashi, who is campaigning as "Japan's Trump" and wearing a MAGA hat, drew a large crowd for his party's final pre-election rally. However, his fringe party seems unlikely to win more than one seat in tomorrow's election.
Somebody has posted the video of NHK Party leader Tachibana Takashi giving a campaign speech in which he says groups of Black people or people of Islamic background standing around stations are "scary" (after saying that White people are not scary).
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The number of early votes cast in Japan reached 21.45 million - the highest ever for a national election - accounting for about 20% of all voters. This could be a sign that overall turnout will be high, or maybe it's because Election Day is in the middle of a three-day weekend.
期日前投票者数は2145万人、国政選挙で過去最多 全���の約2割
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Quite a big crowd gathered in front of Shimbashi Station tonight for the opposition Democratic Party of the People's final rally before election day. They're expected to gain seats, while the ruling LDP will lose seats.
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The 41st "Okinawa Peace Art Exhibition" is taking place in Naha, with the aim of "fostering a desire for peace and preventing the repetition of tragic wars through art.".It looks like they are displaying an antisemitic poster blaming Zelensky for the Ukraine War, Victoria Nuland
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Sanseito candidate Hajikano Hiroki called left-wing anti-Sanseito protesters "hikokumin" - traitors (literally "non-citizens") a term that was commonly used in wartime Japan to label dissenters as traitorous.
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Tamogami Toshio is a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force general who was sacked by LDP Prime Minister Aso in 2008 for writing an essay that argued Japan was not the aggressor in WW2. He's now speaking in favor of Sanseito, claiming that protesters who showed up are paid shills.
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