海外の反応-日本の選挙で高市首相が歴史的な大勝利

PM Takaichi wins two-thirds ‘super majority’ in Japan election
by u/NikkeiAsia in japan

海外のナナシさん

Since 1947, when the current post-war constitution was introduced, no single ruling party has ever won a two-thirds majority on their own.
Even the LDP under Koizumi Junichiro in the early 2000s and Abe Shinzo in the 2010s at the height of their powers couldn’t manage to get two-thirds on their own.
Having a two-thirds majority in the lower house means Takaichi’s LDP can now effectively overrule any opposition veto from the upper house, which the LDP-Ishin coalition does not have a majority.
In fact, the LDP could even ignore Ishin and govern on their own. Though its likely Takaichi would still keep Ishin, who merely broke even on their number of seats, as a coalition partner, but Ishin have clearly lost significant leverage over Takaichi.

海外のナナシさん

Do you know why it is she’s doing so well? I’m not from Japan so I’m not in the pulse of their politics, but it’s surprising to hear that she even outperformed Abe and Junichiro!

海外のナナシさん

She moved the party to the right and gobbled up all the defectors in sanseito.
She is at least seeming to be willing to take some bold action, good or bad. Most people at this rate just want someone to do something and yet they also don’t want to think about politics at all.

海外のナナシさん

It’s mostly because her coalition partner left and formed a new party with the only major opposition party.
These two parties are not even remotely compatible so they disenfranchised a lot of their voters who ended up either not voting or giving their votes to LDP.
While Takaichi is very popular, this is as much the opposition’s failure as it is her success.

海外のナナシさん

It can’t be understated how much the average CDP voter was turned off by their party creating a coalition with Komeito.

海外のナナシさん

The campaign ads are one answer, both online and traditional media.
I don’t know if we’ll ever find out how much they spent on online ads this time. My understanding is that some overall PR spending would be disclosed in the party-level reports for the year, but probably not broken down into more details.
Yomiuri had a prominent banner of LDP on the voting day, which is borderline illegal. (I believe campaign ads on the voting day are banned, the excuse is that it’s not an election campaign ad but an ad to inform what the party is doing in general “separately” from the election.)

海外のナナシさん

My in laws love her – they like that she’s going to reign in the tourist insanity that’s been going on, they like that they now have a female prime minister, and they like that she seems to be wanting to proactively move the country in a new direction – any direction honestly, they’re just tired of the stagnation, the uselessness of the previous governments, and having their hospitality taken advantage of by foreigners who want to treat Japan like their playground.

海外のナナシさん

People in Japan are annoyed by noisy tourists and overcrowded trains.
They live every single day by a harsh and strict set of social norms. And while some elements of their society disregard those rules, those segments are “punished” and ignored. But tourists and foreigners have been given “exemptions” to those rules for decades and been encouraged by the government to “celebrate” this diversity (likely being propped up by business lobbies that deal with tourism).
Then COVID happened, and the average Japanese person realized they weren’t hurt or impacted by the shutting down of various hotels, and indeed actually were able to get cheaper access to local tourism (as hotels were empty, Shinkansen were less crowded, etc).
For a government entity to do an about-face on ‘accepting foreigners’, to the average Japanese person, it’s like *FINALLY*. I’m sure there are other topics, and especially for the rural countryside it’s less concerning, but I’m somewhat convinced this is the topic that resonates the most with what the average person in Tokyo / Kyoto feels.

海外のナナシさん

She used large donations from a cult and the Cabinet Secretariat’s secret funds to domestic japan media and social media strategies.
Specifically, this includes the manipulation of public opinion by operatives. The article praising Takaichi received a large number of comments and likes from what appeared to be supporters, but the technical article claiming that she accelerated the depreciation of the yen showed almost no such manipulation. It was very strange.
That was extremely effective for Japanese people, who lack initiative and tend to go with the flow. Her YouTube video, which has been viewed 160 million times, is a number that was successfull through such advertising strategies.

海外のナナシさん

The country has been going down hill for years. Japanese people are now very poor and desperate. Taikaichi is the only one at least trying to do something about it.

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