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Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population.

As opponents, separated by uniformed police and bodyguards, accuse him of racism, Kamiya shouts back, saying he is only talking common sense.

Sanseito, while still a minor party, made big gains in July’s parliamentary election, and Kamiya's “Japanese First” platform of anti-globalism, anti-immigration and anti-liberalism is gaining broader traction ahead of a ruling party vote Saturday that will choose the likely next prime minister.

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[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Japan's population crisis is caused by its young people being too overworked and overcharged to want to have children. Their population by age is becoming very top-heavy which means that the young are paying a lot to keep the old alive.

The solution to this (apart from don't get into such a situation) is to import young workers to even out your population spread and to raise wages in line with the cost of living and raising a family.

They appear to be shouting "Damn foreigners! Coming over here and making all our elderly live longer than we can economically support them! Overworking our breeding generation so they don't want kids! Curse those foreigners!"

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago

(overworks and robs an entire generation to death)

"Why would foreigners do this?"

Also I'm almost getting tired of posting this brilliant illustration but sheesh, if the jingoistic authoritarian entitlement clan isn't using the same playbook every. Time.

[-] ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure I like this comic because it suggests:

  1. The immigrant worker is absent a cookie not the other way around
  2. That the working class is dimwitted and easily hoodwinked into racism

I think both assumptions are actually copes by a middle class who, afraid to look at its own complicity in neoliberalism, find's easier to condemn the common people as racist and intellectually deficient.

In actuality I think the working class is intuitively aware that their disfranchisement is directly connected to policies like immigration. Along with the opening up of global markets which had a disruptive affect on wages the policy of open immigration has kept wages low and fractured communities and a common sense of culture.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I’m not sure I like this comic because it suggests:

The immigrant worker is absent a cookie not the other way around
That the working class is dimwitted and easily hoodwinked into racism

So you dislike it because it's real and accurate? I don't understand, it could not be more accurate and straight forward for a comic

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