The vote will decide all 465 seats in parliament’s lower house and mark Takaichi’s first electoral test since becoming nation’s first female leader.
By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she will dissolve parliament on Friday and call a general election to seek voter backing for her spending plans and other policies.
The snap election announcement on Monday comes just three months into her tenure as the nation’s first female prime minister. ……
Takaichi is very right wing, against immigration, you know, the usual conservative bullshit.
Japan has been anti-immigration for the last 300 years. Rural towns have an average age of 80.
Japan was even against international trade (besides with China and the Dutch in one city) for the same amount of time until America forced them to open up.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-worldhistory/chapter/27-2-2-isolationism-in-the-edo-period/
The immigration part isn’t new, but her economic stance… she has said Margret Thatcher is an inspiration. It’s just that bad. Her views on gender are also quite backwards, which is ironic given she’s the first female Japanese PM.
Japan and korea have both always been very anti immigration. They’ve famously taken in zero (or next to it) asylum seekers as well.