A snowstorm vote, scripted social media praise, and a distorted electoral system converge to consolidate ultra-right power in Japan, revealing how spectacle and structural bias combine to hollow out democratic representation.
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Most of postwar Japanese politics can be described, without exaggeration, as a ‘one-party dictatorship’ by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—enabled by U.S. imperialism and the vested interests of a plutocracy of money and power. This signifies U.S. postwar international policy of anti-communism, its exoneration and co-optation of war criminals and dictators for the sake of hegemony, and its rehabilitation of fascists. Japan’s LDP is no exception, functioning as a pseudo-government protecting Washington’s interests over its own citizens.
