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Introduction AbstractJapanese law is part of the Civil law (Franco-German) legal system. There have been discussions on the ‘Japanese legal consciousness’, but now, it

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与党、全委員長ポスト要求　議長は自民、副議長は中道 衆院は12日、特別国会召集に向けた各会派の協議会を開いた。自民党は衆院選圧勝を受け、全ての委員長と審査会長のポストを与党に配分するよう求めた。中道改革連合は慣例に基づき野党にも一部渡すよう主張した。 ...

Kyodo reports that the LDP, now equipped with the largest majority in the postwar period, has requested that every committee chair and review board chair position in the Diet be filled by one of their own www.47news.jp/13857838.html

i personally love this kind of stuff

The LDP also experienced landslide victories under Koizumi in 2005 (where 83 first-timers were elected) and under Abe 2.0 in 2012 (where there were 119 newbies)

These Koizumi and Abe “Children”, even with faction training, often made faux pas and scandals

So there’s nervousness within the party

LDP now has 66 first-time lawmakers on their hands

Previously, the party outsourced newbie training to factions

But the factions (bar Aso) have been dissolved, so the party has to quickly build their own central training programme

And they need to hire aides too
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消費税2年ゼロに賛成50%　内閣支持67%、共同通信世論調査 - 日本経済新聞 共同通信社は9、10両日、衆院選を受けて全国緊急電話世論調査を実施した。飲食料品の消費税を2年間ゼロにするとした与党の減税案には賛成50.9%、反対44.9%だった。派閥裏金事件に関係した候補を公認した自民党の判断は「適切ではなかった」が60.2%、「適切だった」が36.8%。高市内閣の支持率は67.3%で、今月6、7両日調査の63.3%から4.0ポイント上昇した。不支持率は23.9%。自民党

In Kyodo’s first post-election poll, when asked whether the LDP nominating candidates implicated in the slush fund was appropriate, 60.2% answered “inappropriate”

43 out of 45 such candidates won their races on Sunday

Support for LDP is now at 40.8%, down from 43.7%
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高市内閣支持すると答えた200人に理由を聞いた　返ってきた答えは：朝日新聞 高市早苗首相を支持する理由は何ですか？　「高市人気」の風が強く吹いた衆院選で、そんな質問を有権者にぶつけてみた。200人から返ってきた最初の言葉は――。　朝日新聞は衆院選で投票した広島市内の有権者に…

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RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

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Posts with Japanese text / All Posts = 245/3,809 = 6.43%

Likes of posts with Japanese text / All Likes = 572/16,466 = 3.47%

(Number of observations over a 60 second period)

Whether Mirai is a centre party is debatable

They’re neither for nor against separate surnames or same sex marriage (so de facto for the status quo where they’re both unrecognised), they’re for constitutional revision and voted for Takaichi’s supplementary budget

But they deny left-right divide

8日投開票の衆議院選挙 比例投票先「自民」が全年代でトップ　JNN世論調査 | TBS NEWS DIG 今月8日に投開票が行われる衆議院選挙の比例代表で現時点で投票する場合、「自民党に投票する」と答えた人が、すべての年代で最も多かったことが、最新のJNNの世論調査でわかりました。高市内閣を「支持できる」と…

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In JNN’s most recent poll, published today, people were asked which party they intend to vote for in the proportion representation side of the Lower House elections

Only 4% of the under-30s demographic answered with a left or centre party (CRA, Reiwa and SDP each had less than 1%; Mirai 1%; JCP 3%)

参政党の台頭はなぜ可能になったか――解かれた極右の封印 - 月刊『地平』 「ふつうの政党」の陰で進む社会規範の弱体化

【『地平』アーカイブ】
参政党の台頭はなぜ可能になったか――解かれた極右の封印 chihei.net?p=5517

〈政治学者カス・ミュデ氏によれば、極右の国家像は「民族支配（ethnocracy）」である。要するに、「真の国民」を狭く定義し、それに沿わない人々の権利を厳しく制限するという発想である〉

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The TACO theatre

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Another interesting perspective, this time on the difference in emphasis in the campaign speeches of Takaichi and Noda/Saito

And the sudden rise in the use of such terms coincided with media coverage of the Upper House elections last summer

Because they were reporting policies Sanseito and Hoshuto were running on

Which is why Romeo stressed the media‘s role and responsibility in his Chihei piece bsky.app/profile/rmar...

As Mark Winchester @archerknewsmit.bsky.social has noted, “foreigner problem” and “foreigner policy” are terms that have come into currency only in the past year

Nakano Kōichi ran a search on Asahi Shimbun database and saw such terms had no or only single digit hits until 2024, but 3 digits in 2025

*nine

Gramsci casually quoting something Romain Rolland wrote eight years prior, in a book review no less gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

YouTube video by 日テレNEWS 【2026衆院選】党首討論会 日本記者クラブ主催（前半）

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An illustration: A man was watching the JNPC debate between the heads of the major parties on TV with his wife

At one point Tamaki grilled Takaichi over whether the sales tax cut for businesses will be by zero-rating or by exemption

And the wife went “poor Ms. Takaichi, being treated like that”

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Yamamoto Tarō is arguably the most famous unvaxxed politician in Japan (he’s personally against the covid vaccines, though not against all vaccines)

But the party’s position is people should be able to choose to be vaxxed or not, so employers shouldn’t require it

What he does is MoF conspiracy

Jeffrey Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social is currently researching this topic and will have an article out next year I think

One of Sanseito’s co-founders, Watase Yūya, said yesterday that the party strategy in their first national election was to lure people who support Reiwa

This was because Reiwa supporters already overlapped with Sanseito in their affinity for anti-vax, conspiracy theories, organic foods, etc.