Post on X: Post-WWII Japan

Post on X: https://x.com/randomyoko/status/1857277616983867668

Just like the US, today in Japan, professors, teachers, lawyers, reporters, and other elites are often left biased.
Why? Because the Japanese patriots, about 200K were purged due to the loss of the WWII.
Patriotic parts of Japan’s textbooks were literally inked out. As a result, naturally, the Japanese system afterwards is anti-Japan. That’s part of the reason why Shinzo Abe’s first admin slogan was to “break free from the postwar regime”.
So it’s understandable that the left is powerful in society while the right is powerful online.

In Japan, “resistance” side is the conservatives that even want to re-write or revise Japan’s constitution.
The left, however, wants to keep it even though it was written by their enemy at the time.
The left on the top of that, wants to destroy Japan’s traditional values believing that the standards of the “world” are liberals because that’s who they are friends with even in academic field, media field etc.

Right after the WWII, Japanese conservatives were against having US bases in Japan because they were living in the continuation of the history, but the Japanese studied more and more, even talking to Americans, and realized both Japan and the US had Soviet Union spies and we were rather forced to fight each other.

Japanese conservatives also learned that the US republicans/conservatives didn’t want to go into war and Roosevelt became the POTUS by LYING to the American citizens saying that he would not send their sons to the battle field.
There was the necessity for him that Japan provoke the war. Thus, Japanese conservatives are frustrated with the US democrats historically, too. While the Japanese left is brainwashing the people in Japan using the mass media and education system, the right is fighting back with our own media outlets and individual outlets.

The left often speak English well and the right don’t usually do. We conservatives are disadvantaged in many ways like these, but at least, there are many of us, and therefore, on the Internet, we are dominant against the left.
​Young people will be exposed to our side more and more. Things are looking a little more hopeful for us than before.