• Horsey@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Since I see this come up a lot, I will say that this part is changing. Not everywhere and it’s still delicate, but it’s not like it used to be.

    I’m so glad, because it kills me to see Japan go so far downhill socially and economically. Tokyo should be the NYC of the far east.

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      24 hours ago

      For that, we’d need younger, educated, critical thinkers to actually vote. Usually, the three of those factors don’t exist together. I think voter turnout for youth is still like 50% or less. I know the populist far-right party got some votes recently for being good at social media, different, and offering simple solutions (most of which were “foreigner bad!”), but it didn’t seem to translate as much in the last election making it seem like more of a protest vote if anything.