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Japan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbours. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to opposition groups promising stimulus and clampdowns on migrants.
Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.
Japanese here. This will be our third glass cliff.
Please help me emigrate.
To where? What country doesn’t have political issues?
I hear the name “Thatcher” and I shiver in loathing and fear that she will do the same kind of damage Thatcher did to UK.
Thatcher’s neoliberalism is thoroughly discredited at this point, as the UK, USA and all countries that pursued it find themselves beset by problems that can’t be solved within that economic framework. Austerity just compounds the damage, yet Thatcherite governments continue to inflict it, pleasing only the rich while their countries sink into fascism, their people become poorer, and their economies stumble. To come to power proposing this today as a solution to Japan’s problems is blind dogmatic idiocy.
Just to add on your perfect statement, it’s because, adopting fascism usually means, they isolate themselves from everyone Else in a global economy.
And it’s not even the worst thing about this person. She’s a Japanese was crime negationist.
From what I can tell, those seem all too common.
