A Japanese nationalist party led by fiery anti-globalist Sohei Kamiya was among the biggest winners in this summer’s parliamentary election

Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population.

As opponents, separated by uniformed police and bodyguards, accuse him of racism, Kamiya shouts back, saying he is only talking common sense.

Sanseito, while still a minor party, made big gains in July’s parliamentary election, and Kamiya’s “Japanese First” platform of anti-globalism, anti-immigration and anti-liberalism is gaining broader traction ahead of a ruling party vote Saturday that will choose the likely next prime minister.

  • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    18 hours ago

    He’s supported by the most exceptionally ignorant among the right-wing (whom we call ‘netto-uyoku’—Internet right-wings). Many people in Japan use Xitter as their primary source of information and are being brainwashed by the xenophobic conspiracies flooding the platform. This country is over; it’s actually worse than America, IMHO.

    • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      81·
      17 hours ago

      I’m a fairly open borders guy, but if you want to have near-zero immigration to avoid foreigners, the country HAS to improve the life of persons, particularly women, so that having children and raising them to adulthood is a activity that is more joy than stress. Otherwise, you’ll go the way of South Korea.

      Of course, the “correct” behavior is to not treat foreigners as other, but as “merely” different aspects of self. Then seek to integrate all tolerant persons that want to immigrate; likely through multiculturalism.

      • Galactose@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You’re a moron if you are pro-open borders. That’s a economic disaster waiting to happen.

        Also people like you never keep that same energy when it actually happens & turn into raging xenophobes.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        21·
        6 hours ago

        the country HAS to improve the life of persons, particularly women, so that having children and raising them to adulthood is a activity that is more joy than stress.

        There is no developed country on the planet where women have the replacment rate or more of children…it will never matter how much support they get. Look to Sweden etal

        Always and every time if women are given the ability to be independent and have a choice they will nearly all choose 0,1 or 2. All of that leads to negative population growth. For every woman that chooses 0, you need another that chooses 3 or 4 just for stasis

        What you’re describing does and would never exist unless women are coerced, have no contraception or are brainwashed (religion) the vast majority obky ont 0,1 or 2.

        To have a larger family women need a tribe, we no longer live in tribes (as we did for nearly all of human existence) so the support network is a horror and always will be with the stupidity that is a nuclear famiky.

        Then there is ecology, the planet is massively over populated, we are killing ourselves in our own filth, we should have less then a billion people amd probably closer to 100 million.

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
          11·
          5 hours ago

          I know 3 women that enthusiastically have/had 3 or 4 children. It’s possible when their community acts as a tribe, possibly through governmental support.