Right-wing Sanae Takaichi set to be Japan's first female premier (www.reuters.com)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 15:14
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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.

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca on 04 Oct 15:15 next collapse

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.

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 04 Oct 15:50 next collapse

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.

Bullerfar@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 16:17 collapse

Just to add on your perfect statement, it’s because, adopting fascism usually means, they isolate themselves from everyone Else in a global economy.

oce@jlai.lu on 04 Oct 16:07 collapse

And it’s not even the worst thing about this person. She’s a Japanese was crime negationist.

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 04 Oct 16:16 collapse

From what I can tell, those seem all too common.

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 04 Oct 16:55 collapse

Japanese here. This will be our third glass cliff.

Please help me emigrate.

Melonpoly@lemmy.world on 04 Oct 23:32 next collapse

To where? What country doesn’t have political issues?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 05 Oct 01:16 next collapse

Any European country that has high speed internet and an anarchist conscience. Belgium was my last pick before their internet bs.

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 05 Oct 02:08 collapse

Find an uncharted island not claimed by any country and start your own. With hookers and blackjack.

BaronVonBort@lemmy.world on 05 Oct 02:03 next collapse

Come to America!

It’s gre………………

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 05 Oct 04:43 collapse

What were the first two?

AntiBullyRanger@ani.social on 05 Oct 06:34 collapse