Might as well post here since I got banned from /r/ Japan back in June for telling the English tutors there that Japan is not America/the west and that the Japanese constitution defines marriage as a man and a woman, that almost every other Japanese person has the same stance as me that we don’t care if you’re lgbt but you aren’t going to change society and Japanese culture over it.

This is going to have significant consequences in Japan. And it has solidified for me what I previously felt only as a hunch, that the global mafia that funds and promotes leftism and authoritarian statism to the detriment of personal liberty (we can just call them marxists, as that is what they are) has set its eye on Japan and started its mission in Japan. They’re starting to play ball again.

Some background I was born in Japan, spent half of my childhood there and the other half in the US, planned to stay in the US until shortly after the recession when the actions of the government, the general political landscape and the direction it was taking and the cultural Marxism growing exponentially in America made the decision to go back easier than I wish it had been, for the sake of my family.

Unfortunately I think Japan is set to go through the same challenges the west is facing at this time, soon. It’s a very cohesive and collectivist society, which has its positives and negatives, mainly positives. But also it is the country it is because the work of the local governments under the LDP, which has been in power since the US left japan after world war 2. As with every government, it has had its shares of problems and corruption, which continues to this day, but pales to most of the world, and the party has always maintained a sort of policy that I can only describe, to make familiar comparisons, as “Japan first”. Regardless of individual politics or policies, any politician of any standing frames their policies so as to improve the Japanese people and the country; this has started to change. In the past 10 years slowly but surely I have witnessed distressing signs that we’re going down the dangerous path. And the worst part is most Japanese are so pacifistic, sheltered and isolated from the outside world and it’s civil unrest that I don’t think they’re prepared for what can happen.

Cultural Marxism and “wokeism”, for lack of a better word, while not nearly mainstream, has started to take hold especially among youth. While Japanese youth are somewhat unique in that they tend to be more supportive of conservative or centrist policies than their parents and grandparents, who lean more socialist, they are as exposed to and influenced by social media and American cultural exports (read: woke Hollywood garbage, etc - that is all the US exports now) as elsewhere. Publications such as the Mainichi, which lean left, have pumped out daily articles all focusing on viewing Japanese society through the lens of critical theory, institutional racism, LGBT oppression, feminism, etc. While all topics that have merit, the way that it is being pushed out is clearly done as a form of propaganda, to create and normalize the idea that Japan is an oppressor state which needs to be fixed by the experts. Don't believe me, want to see it in real time? Simply peruse the best posts feed of /r/Japan over the past 2 years and see the themes that are almost annoyingly common in the titles - racism this, racism that, oppression, sexism, etc etc etc.

The foreign community here is split among those from anglo nations and those not from anglo nations, the former of which tend to be left leaning and "progressive", who immigrate to this country to take a part of all the benefits and privileges it offers them, only to spend their entire time criticizing and demonizing it, saying it needs to change to be more like America/Europe/Canada/Australia (CAD and AUS are the worst offenders), complaining that the country isn't wholly dedicated to the crusade of solidarity for women, trannied, foreigners, black people (probably a smaller population in Japan than trannies), etc, etc etc. Yet they also refuse to move back to their superior countries with their superior cultures. The latter group is mostly politically silent, and tend to assimilate well into the population, as is the case with Asians and latinos in America.

The reason I mention the above is because as progressivism and cultural marxism grows in the west, westerners in Japan have started to become more comfortable being vocal about promoting it here. Japanese people are extremely susceptible, as a whole, to peer pressure. As I said we are highly collectivist, and while that provide many wonderful benefits, it also creates an issue where it is very easy to follow the crowd and staying quiet so as to not lose face, even when one disagrees - this is why the entire population keeps wearing masks 24/7 even when almost everyone doesn't want to wear them anymore. It is a similar problem in all Asian countries and it seems in Scandinavian and Germanic countries as well, all areas that have in the past fallen victim to fascism and marxism, which thrives in such societies. While Japanese as a whole don't care much for the opinions of foreign immigrants, younger people do take into great importance the way Japan and its people are viewed by Europe and America; they don't want to be seen as regressive or left behind in history. And it is my fear that this will increasingly provide the fuel necessary to westernize and radicalize Japan by the new left with the good intention of being a good global citizenry - losing their own country, culture and societal order in the process.

Moving on to the next part of this post, I would like to talk about the current prime minister and cabinet. Fumio Kishida. I am not a fan of this man. In fact, I believe he is one of the worst things to happen to this country in many years. People on this website will tell you he is "Abe 2.0" because their level of critical thinking is elementary, and they believe anyone in the LDP = "nazi", but this is incorrect. Kishida is very much a progressive candidate (in the twisted American sense of the word). He is not a full on radical in the sense that he is in office advocating for sudden and immediate change as westerners want (for example legalizing same sex marriage), but his entire shtick since coming into office has been to Europeanize Japan and change it from the bottom up, completely changing the economic system which has for better or worse kept it as the third largest economy in then world for over 50 years, by trying to corporatize the government through "public private partnership" (read: crony capitalism AKA socialism done wrong), forcing Japanese people and companies - which have the largest rate of private savings in the world, to speculative investment; instituting quotas and affirmative action for women and minorities, etc.

Since Kishida took office, and partially through Suga's tenure before him, the amount of attention and virtue signaling paid to feminists and critical activists in government has increased dramatically. The most concerning of all is Kishida's constant talk of "new capitalism", which is a buzzword simply describing crony capitalism of the vein that is of benefit to the WEF. Which, by the way, has Kishida deeply in their pockets. Kishida is renowned for being educated abroad, attending University in the USA, and it shows that he has brought back from campus leftist and globalist ideas that if implemented would change Japan radically in a shift not seen in decades. I cannot fit in one comment all of the problems this man intends to bring to Japan, but you can check my post history to see snippets of comments I have made regarding issues with his short tenure, and most importantly of all, his rhetoric.

Japan is a country which, like the US, has freedom of expression and speech codified in its constitution, in fact Japan has most of the bill of rights in its constitution excluding the second amendment, which was by design of the American military government as they wanted to disarm Japan post WWII. I would even say, the US being the surveillance police state that it is, that Japan has MORE privacy, MORE freedom of expression in most cases than the US in most recent cases. Especially privacy, which is very highly regarded here. While in Japan libel laws are much more strict and you can lose a civil lawsuit even if what you said was true but defamed someone (this also keeps the media truthful and unbiased), Japan is a country where almost all speech and artistic license in the public forum is respected. Infamously Japan's manga industry has a whole genre of drawn pornography which features underage characters, which has been repeatedly protected in the courts by freedom of expression even if it may be considered obscene or offensive to the general population. I can't say the same for similar situations in the US. Japanese use social media less because of a concern for privacy and many have issue showing their face on the internet without some sort of mask or pixelation.

Since taking office as PM, the following policies have been implemented in Japan, which have threatened freedom of expression, privacy, or increased policing powers:

• "Cyberbullying/targeted harassment" bill making online harassment prosecutable.
• Establishment of a national cybercrimes task force increasing government policing power online
• Sex worker bill crippling the adult film industry that threatens to take it underground, to appease vocal feminists
• Establishment of a children and families agency increasing government purview into private households

among others, in the course of less than one year.

Kishida is a change in Japanese prime ministership leaning more leftwards, and forces have begun to slowly but surely spring up attempting to bring about forced change to Japanese government and society through "activism", critical questioning, and establishment of a "new capitalism". One of the major forces maintaining a status quo within the LDP, which is an umbrella party (not a strictly conservative party as the SJWs on reddit proclaim it is) was Shinzo Abe. It is highly possible that the perpetrator in this case was simply a nutjob. Its even possible it could be an fascist (as in a national imperialist/socialist) nutjob (still exist here), however my fear is that this assassination is a symptom of a shift in power and a struggle of ideologies that is once again stating to take a hold in Japan, who has maintained a 50 year period of political stability since the Japanese Red Army and similar organizations was taken down. It's my hope that the marxists haven't come home to roost, and I hope I am wrong, but with what I've witnessed over the past couple of years, I am not so confident I am.