The Japanese far-right would be the dog that caught the car if the U.S. had to abandon its bases there. I imagine they'd bluster a lot about rebuilding their military and nixing the post-war treaty, but China is at a point now where any economic or military challenge from Japan would be laughed down. The country would probably just transition to being a Chinese satelite, which might be good for Left anti-austerity movements there.
Although given how even the Japanese communist party doesn't like the CPC, maybe not.
If anything, with the US out of the way, I'd see Japan attempting to make the ROK into a satellite state, except miserably failing due to increased pressure to compete economically with China. If America declines, then I'm guessing Japan would do a speed run of the last 30 years of American history, starting with austerity and ending with a PM somehow even weirder than Taro Aso.
He's comparable to George W Bush in a lot of ways. He's awful at public speaking and notorious for pronouncing words wrong, even really simple ones. He comes from an extremely wealthy family that maintained friendships with a lot of prominent politicians. He has a talent for saying the weirdest, wrongest, most racist or sexist things possible but then try to play it off by saying like he was tired or they're mistakes anyone could make. Like once a few years back he said no one noticed when Weimar Germany became Nazi Germany. One of his more famous statements is "hurry up and die" in regards to Japan's elderly population.
For some reason he's also the Japanese government's anime ambassador?
Japanese communist party are just the same thing that UK Labour or the US Democrats are, controlled opposition for the conservative party. They would absolutely kowtow to economic influence from China.
The Japanese far-right would be the dog that caught the car if the U.S. had to abandon its bases there. I imagine they'd bluster a lot about rebuilding their military and nixing the post-war treaty, but China is at a point now where any economic or military challenge from Japan would be laughed down. The country would probably just transition to being a Chinese satelite, which might be good for Left anti-austerity movements there.
Although given how even the Japanese communist party doesn't like the CPC, maybe not.
If anything, with the US out of the way, I'd see Japan attempting to make the ROK into a satellite state, except miserably failing due to increased pressure to compete economically with China. If America declines, then I'm guessing Japan would do a speed run of the last 30 years of American history, starting with austerity and ending with a PM somehow even weirder than Taro Aso.
Why is Taro Aso weird? I feel like Japan trying to make the ROK into a satellite would be a disaster because Koreans aren't fans of Japan.
He's comparable to George W Bush in a lot of ways. He's awful at public speaking and notorious for pronouncing words wrong, even really simple ones. He comes from an extremely wealthy family that maintained friendships with a lot of prominent politicians. He has a talent for saying the weirdest, wrongest, most racist or sexist things possible but then try to play it off by saying like he was tired or they're mistakes anyone could make. Like once a few years back he said no one noticed when Weimar Germany became Nazi Germany. One of his more famous statements is "hurry up and die" in regards to Japan's elderly population.
For some reason he's also the Japanese government's anime ambassador?
Oh boy, where to start. Imagine an extremely chipper Joe Biden who loves anime and is also technically royalty.
Oh Taro Aso. Last PM had to step down because his asshole was bleeding, so the LDP just replaced him with an actual bleeding asshole.
Edit: nvm, I mixed up Aso with Suga for some reason. I stand by the bit though.
Honestly they need to get unrecognized as a communist party internationally and replace their spot with the Japan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)
This ceased to exist in 1999. Its successor is supposedly the Workers' Communist Party In Japan.
All I can find is this where it says it split like 3 times
The only conclusion I have come to thus far is that Japan's so fucking reactionary their communists are our corporate libs.
Their Wikipedia article:
https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/労働者共産党
Their official webpage: http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga3129/
(If you don’t speak Japanese, DeepL handles the language better than Google Translate.)
Of Japanese revolutionary parties, Chukakuha is probably more well known and has a greater online presence (including a YouTube channel).
Japanese communist party are just the same thing that UK Labour or the US Democrats are, controlled opposition for the conservative party. They would absolutely kowtow to economic influence from China.