Far-Right Sanseito May Threaten LDP’s Dominance of Japanese Politics

After the bleak results in the Japanese parliamentary elections, there is a wide consensus between Japanese legislators and political analysts, as Prime Minister Shigro Eshiba is numbered. However, it seems that someone said that he was directly to Ishiba, who pledged to stay.

The current political crisis is the result of the July 20 elections in the Japanese Senate, which is the lowest powerful room in parliament. It has no direct role in identifying the Prime Minister, but it is an indication of political wealth in a country where the basis of individual leaders is in general, even with the survival of the ruling party.

After the bleak results in the Japanese parliamentary elections, there is a wide consensus between Japanese legislators and political analysts, as Prime Minister Shigro Eshiba is numbered. However, it seems that someone said that he was directly to Ishiba, who pledged to stay.

The current political crisis is the result of the July 20 elections in the Japanese Senate, which is the lowest powerful room in Parliament. It has no direct role in identifying the Prime Minister, but it is an indication of political wealth in a country where the basis of individual leaders is in general, even with the survival of the ruling party.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has been in power for 64 years since its foundation in 1955, lost its majority-even with additional support to its partner in the religious alliance, Communo. The ruling coalition now contains 122 seats out of 248 seats in the House of Representatives, and with only 220 seats out of 465 seats in the lower home, its grip on power is weak.

However, this decline failed to provide any payment to the main opposition parties. The Constitutional Democratic Party, which was created from the parties’ integration in 2017 and whose ancestors were able to seize power from 2009 to 2012, has 148 seats in the lower home and only 38 seats in the House of Representatives.

Instead, Japan joins the growing cadre of Western countries where young voters, especially men, depend on social media to see the world and do not like what they see. As elsewhere, this anger created on easy goals, including high prices and foreigners – but the populists who appeared as a result did not provide any clear policies. The Telegenic Sanseito Party, which came out of the angry YouTube channel and carried a campaign on the familiar concept of “Japanese first”, the great winner in the last elections, where he occupied 15 seats, with an increase of only one, and 15 percent respected from voting for the election candidates in two phases. This still leaves them as a secondary party – now, at least.

The appearance of a right-wing party from foreigners in Japan seems to some extent in Japan, where the country-LDP-was widely seen as already anti-forever. In 2018, then the then Minister of Leader, Shinzo Abe, who represented a model of the party’s conservative wing, told Parliament that the government “has no intention to take the so -called immigration policy.” Even with the recent migration to help fill in low jobs, foreigners represent 3 per cent of the population, which is among the lowest levels among all countries in the organization for economic cooperation and development and much less than United CENS 14 percent. Of these, only about half of them are permanent residents.

It seems that much anger aims to collectively flow to foreign tourists, who can be seen in large numbers in popular cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto. This, of course, has nothing to do with immigration but provides a nice hook to talk about the evils of foreigners, who are supposed to buy Japanese lands and commit crimes. Sanseito’s main policy points on the usual scale of conspiracy theories and lies are of the so -called “mad margin”, which threatens to move from the edge to the center of politics. It claims that Covid-19 was by pharmaceutical companies, Japan only sought to liberate other Asian countries during World War II, and globalization somehow hurt the Japan economy that is driven by export.

The most obvious for regular japanese is an increase in inflation, which ranges between 2.5-3.5 percent, depending on the listed ingredients. Within this controlled number, however, double the rice retail price – an essential element that has a legendary position in Japanese culture.

A deficiency of rice -secreted rice for the planned economy (US President Donald Trump note) shows a lot of blame from a long -term government program to decrease annual rice production with meals change. With the government’s wholesale and production prices, Japan had an increasing stock of rice that has become increasingly expensive to manage it. This suddenly reflected with the hottest weather and the comprehensive retirement of the post -war generation of farmers, which led to a decrease in the land available for rice production. In response, the government began to launch stocks and increase imports to help reduce prices, but progress was slow.

The return of inflation was a long target for the government and the central bank, both of whom saw an intuitive pressure as a decline in the economy. But as we saw in the 2024 presidential elections for the United States, consumers prefer to shrink, although they usually mean stagnant wages.

Partial impact is partial but also measured. In an inflationary environment, prices rise steadily, while the increase in wages – even if they are at the same level – will come more slowly, which leads to a “vicious circle” feeling that regardless of the speed of running, you can never catch the knee. Data supports this perception, as Japanese workers now see real (modified) wages a decrease in most of the past two years. In May, it decreased by 2.9 percent from levels of the same month last year.

The height of wages is not uniform. While the major companies were able to use some of their higher profits amid the falling to pay salaries, small and medium enterprises that employ 70 percent of Japanese workers have found that they are under great pressure to raise wages.

These complaints take the “effect of loudspeakers” through social media. Sanseito’s economic recipes are mysterious and are likely to be unprecedable, but this does not accumulate its popular attractiveness. The leader and founder of a partner in Sansito, said that economic problems in Japan can be solved through the presence of fewer foreign workers and tax reducing, despite the problems posed by the Japanese workforce and the debt rate of more than 230 percent of the annual gross domestic product, almost twice the American level.

“People who read newspapers and make their decisions accordingly are the ones who vote for the benefit of traditional parties, and people who read many blogs, read many social media publications, and consider many YouTube to make their decisions, and they turn more than these anti -institution parties,“ Romeo Marcantuoni, who is a researcher at Tokyo University who has not been taught.

But Sanseito is not alone in an attempt to give money to disturbing voters. Other parties also suggested income tax discounts or a national consumption reduction, which is currently 10 percent. LDP suggested, beware of exacerbating the financial debt, more limited cash payments.

The LDP response to its risky position was faded. Despite calls for the party’s reformulation to open decisions, the focus instead was on those who could replace Ishiba, with the most likely names being the other competitors in the October 2024 elections that settled on Ishiba. These conservatives include SANA Takaychi, Minister of Agriculture Chenegero Koizumi and former Prime Minister Taro ASO. Nobody represents a new look, and each carries their own problems. Takaichi is seen as very radical and unable to place the party’s most liberal wing, and Koizumi was faded in his role, the most famous for being the son of a former leader, while 84 -year -old ASO is famous for his repeated verbal dizziness.

Meanwhile, Ishiba repeated his position that he should stay in his place after a hard meeting for four hours on July 28, with more than 230 members of Parliament in LDP. In the days after the elections, it was widely called to step down, but also received some support in opinion polls, making the immediate exit less confident.

Ishiba also describes the fact that it has made a surprising deal at the last minute with the United States, a trade agreement that limits at least the damages of definitions on Japanese exports, especially for car parts. His opponents have turned this to say that with the applied deal now, Ishiba can now leave. Graduation is not a surplus commodity in politics.

None of this solves the structural issues faced by the Democratic Democratic Party and other parties in Japan. “It is not clear whether the advanced parties such as the Democratic Party are the turmoil confronting the emerging social challenges. It may be a spontaneous response to humans to be extremist when things do not work well,” said Masharao Mughaaki, a political affairs specialist at Kyu University. He and other analysts said that the Democratic Democratic Party should recognize the challenges of inflation, low economic growth, and an aging community, and seek a national consensus to address these issues. Whether social media will pay any attention to another question.