Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, resigns due to illness

[tru_m.a.c]

Dudes a piece of shyt, don't stress it.

His political party is the unabashed Nationalist party.

Racism, misogyny, war crime denial, the whole nine yards.

I came in to say just this. I won't be losing sleep over this.

 

[The axe murderer]

His political party is the unabashed Nationalist party.

Racism, misogyny, war crime denial, the whole nine yards.

Yep

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Nah this dude dipping on his country, he knows they're going back to the 90's once this global economic bubble pops. He don't want to be the face of that.

That was my first thought upon seeing this. Or maybe he really is sick?

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

wtf did he do that was so bad???

No government coercion in war's sex slavery: Abe | The Japan Times Online
this is just one example. he was a leading figure in the japanese society for history textbook reform whose goal is to underemphasize japanese war crimes in WWII and abuses like the comfort women. his party is right-wing and hes even more nationalistic than previous PMs from his party

That was my first thought upon seeing this. Or maybe he really is sick?

apparently hes been to the hospital twice lately, one of the visits was seven and a half hours long

 

[MoneyTron]

Anyone know how they choose a successor? I don’t think their elections are until next year.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You'll probably never tag me into a conversation I know less about than Japan's political parties, @FAH1223

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Anyone know how they choose a successor? I don’t think their elections are until next year.

its like the British system where the majority party has a leadership election, and the leader of the party becomes PM
Shinzo Abe’s resignation: who might become Japan’s next PM?

 

[the next guy]

Don't want to see any get sick, but he had some nasty policies.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Big shakeup

Besides that

 

[Kenny West]

yo im ctfu

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

whats even funnier is i think that protest started out as anti-china cause a lot of chinese people were staying in that hotel and those guys just caught strays

imagine going to japan to live out your anime weeb fantasies and this shyt happens

 

[levitate]

Hopefully someone comes in with the balls to stop being reliant on US military.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

these fools have been in power basically nonstop since the party formed

“The LDP has almost continuously been in power since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—with the exception of a period between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. In the 2012 election it regained control of the government.”

1955 System - Wikipedia

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

Yoshihide Suga to be Japan's prime minister after winning party vote