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.
Probably a millennial delusion shored up by gaming. Japanese tech hasn’t been anything to talk about for nearly 20 years.
It’s always outdone by Korean or Chinese tech.
In the 1980s, they had legitimately ground-breaking tech, from LCD displays to Toyota to PCs to walkman to BetaMax to unmanned railway stations.
Then the 90s happened, and decades of economic stagnation while society continues to be centered around the boomers (paper offices, Fax machines, they made new cassette tapes until like 2015, they still have payphones, cash-only businesses, etc).
I would have a difficult time identifying Japanese tech that isn’t made in China.