Random observations from a Parisian in Tokyo: It's Tokyo prefecture governor election this weekend, and some candidates are just memes. - eviltoast

There’s a Samurai and a Joker. The joker says he wants to legalize cannabis and rename the Shibuya district to “drug-addict” district.
As far as I understand, Japanese people are fairly politically apathetic and abstention is very high.

Edit: governor, not mayor.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayFrançais
    22·
    5 months ago

    I know nothing about the samurai guy but I hope he loses. Japanese Nationalism is a serious issue.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      5·
      5 months ago

      As best I can tell, the samurai guy shares a name with one of the legendary 47 ronin and often leads a procession about it. It’s hard to find actual policy positions.

      https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/305992 mentions a couple things.

      https://onodera.akogishi.com/rinen/ appears to be the party platform which is … odd. The filial piety/loyalty thing is a big yikes for me in most interpretations, but maybe it’s more innocent than I’m reading into it (it is pretty vague in at least the couple minutes I had to poke around).

    • Klaq@jlai.luFrançais
      3·
      5 months ago

      Entre Moon et Nippon Kaigi, le Japon c’est aussi un badtrip permanent.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luOPFrançais
        3·
        5 months ago

        There are vans with speakers shouting political slogans including the pro-emperor xenophobic nationalists. I was very surprised that this practice is allowed in the country of politeness.