What is the charge? Constructing a doohickey?? An ingenious japanese doohickey???
Ironic to do this, after the LDP admitted he was right by severing (public)ties with the Moonies
That’s bullshit! I was looking forward to his next assassination of a Japanese PM and these damned bureaucrats are making it impossible with their damn convoluted government regulations!
The one thing liberal democracy had going for it was the right to free expression [of bullets from doohickeys]
When you kill the Prime Minister but you are Sorry for party rockin
He did nothing wrong
Um he broke the law sweetie, Jesus, Moses and God said “thou shalt not kill” so ruminate on that.
Second president named Abe to be assassinated.
Mr Abe a second doohickey has hit the prime minister
Abe first name, check. Abe last name, check. we need one with the middle name Abe now.
now if he manages to kill another PM from Prision , they would have to free him by that logic.
I’m surprised he didn’t get the death penalty
Pure speculation but maybe they dont want a martyr. I havent followed this case super closesly but didnt the asssassin get basically everything he wanted ?
I think he was perhaps the most successful political assassin of the 21st century
At the same time, at least to an outsider, Takaichi seems like an even worse version of Abe’s politics.
Another concrete example of how adventurism while cathartic is a bad time.
how adventurism while cathartic is a bad time
I don’t think “you shouldn’t kill fascists in case their replacement is a worse fascist” is a great line of thought though
No the line of thought is form a proper organization to make your fascist killing not only morally correct and cathartic but meaningful.
yea i think if this guy did that shinzo abe would probably still be alive
Proper organization is absolutely necessary and we will never achieve meaningful and lasting results without it. However that doesn’t mean that individual acts are therefore inherently wrong or that they are ineffective. Don’t confuse insufficiency with futility.
I realize you acknowledged in another comment that individual action is not inherently wrong but the constant fingerwagging and pooh-poohing at people who have made significant impact via individual action implies that it is. As LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins alluded to, a multiplicity of individual actions, even if not tied to one specific organization, very much can and will effect long term positive change even if it will ultimately never be enough on its own to “win the war.” Organizational efforts and individual acts of resistance can (and often do) exist in tandem, with the latter playing a supportive role for the former. That’s still true even if the individual’s energy would ultimately be better off channeled directly into the organization, again that doesn’t mean it doesn’t help or that is serves no purpose whatsoever, which is just bad analysis.
Yep. At best it has the potential to make a funny meme for a year. Reaction is already organised to seize on a crisis while adventurists aren’t. A lifetime in Japanese prison to demolish one evangelical cult, probably replaced by a dozen splinter churches since, is not at all worth whoever he thought would replace Abe. At least from casually following it I haven’t even seen a bigger political plan for Abe’s replacement, same for both the Trump shooters and the guy who was doing target practice near Charlie Kirk during his fentanyl overdose.
The unfortunate truth is at least currently in the imperial core and its client states any left wing organisation is either non existent or has been neutered into innefectuality at least for now. The rearming of the BPP is promising but I think is yet to be indictive of any wider trend.
He killed Abe over a specific issue (the Moonies) and the resulting public outrage actually forced the government to do something about it (cut ties with the Moonies, at least publicly). I don’t think his goal was to revolutionize Japanese society, as far as assassinations go I’d say it was successful.
That still doesn’t contradict the critique. In Japan, right-wing religious and nationalist organizations embedding themselves in the LDP is a structural feature of the postwar political system, not an aberration caused by Abe or the Moonies alone. His killing forced temporary public distancing from one cult because it became politically toxic, but it did not dismantle the broader ecosystem of religious-right groups, nationalist NGOs, corporate donors, and political families that mutually reinforce each other inside Japanese bourgeois politics. The LDP didn’t lose power, the funding structures didn’t change, and no permanent mechanism was created to prevent the same relationships from reappearing under different names. So yes, one cult was punished and one figure was removed, but the system that produces those connections in Japan remained untouched, which is exactly why the outcome was cathartic rather than transformative.
Some people are speculating in a (English, not Japanese at all) discord I’m in that it technically didn’t meet the definition of “Aggrevated murder” needed. See here for a list according to wiki. Closest on that would probably be treason, but thats a big stretch for a former PM.
Wild to me because the Japanese legal system always seemed modeled after/as barbaric as our American system. (With a few big differences of course.)
I’d honestly rather die than spend life in a Japanese prison. Basically means solitary confinement, forever.
What a funny van. It looks like anime. The wheels are too small and they have a Hot Wheels vibe. That black window is very funky. The lightbars seem insubstantial. The front end looks cartoony. I hope he ends up at anime jail so he can escape.
it looks like anime
damn they made a whole country based on what anime looks like???
I hate to burst your bubble but anime is cartoony.
the wheels can be that small when the roads are high enough quality and construction dollars is a primary if not majority part of the Japanese patronage system so
if not majority part of the Japanese patronage system
The corruption involving the Joetsu Shinkansen line is kind of funny to me. A trunk line to Niigata was created because it was the hometown of a rotten pol, Kakuei Tanaka, and he wanted his city to have a Shinkansen line. He later became a PM and there was much more corruption.
Particularly notorious was the Joetsu Shinkansen, which terminates in the city of Niigata on Japan’s northern coast. Being built through mountainous territory, the line cost far more to build than the Tokaido line but carries only one-quarter as many passengers. Built at the behest of Kakuei Tanaka, a member of the Japanese Diet, the line terminates in Niigata, Tanaka’s hometown, whose metropolitan area has only around a million residents. Tanaka was prime minister of Japan for two-and-a-half years before being forced to resign in disgrace and tried and convicted for corruption, accepting bribes, and directing government construction contracts into his prefecture.
https://www.newgeography.com/content/006969-the-dark-side-japans-bullet-trains
Rant. Fuck google. And fuck Wikipedia too. The pages for Tanaka and the Joetsu Shinkansen are a disgrace.
Honestly if there has to be corruption I’d far prefer building trains that don’t justify it in usage capacity than the usual road and car kickback nonsense. In fact I think the whole idea of needing to justify cost with high ridership is capitalist bullshit. Are there a certain amount of people in an area? Yes? They should be connected by rail. Doesn’t matter if the terrain the rail has to pass through is expensive in terms of construction. As long as it’s bigger than a hamlet or small town of 1000 it should have some form of rail service or at least a rapid regular bus to a nearby rail station within 15 minutes ride.
