So, there was Our Man yesterday in Kashiwa, Chiba, doing what every good family man does on the
many national holidays Japan has, traipse around the shops following the womenfolk wondering if he shouldn't be digging a hole or hammering a nail or something, when the normal cacophony that is shopping in Japan was interrupted by an even more grating noise, yes,
Our Man was privy to a mini-convoy of right wingers. Presumably they were celebrating National Foundation Day, but Our Man didn't flag them down to ask. Something about the 1940s music, black bus daubed with slogans and imperial Japanese flags said: "Not the best time to make small talk." So now, these folk would be the uyoku dantai (right wingers).
According to wikipedia, there are 100,000 such folk in Japan who share three core beliefs: nationalism, hatred of communism, and hatred of the main teachers' union. Bit like Tories, then?
Maybe Our Man could sign up, they probably have good darts nights. Oh, there are the other minor issues of being in bed with the
yakuza, exulting the
emperor and explaining away Japan's imperial past as no more than a noisy picnic that the neighbours complained about. Hmmm.
You know, maybe the old LDP ain't so bad after all.
6 comments:
'there are 100,000 such folk in Japan who share three core beliefs: nationalism, hatred of communism, and hatred of the main teachers' union.'
where do is sign.The USA has gone all communist and has taken britain with it.
We need someone to fight Nationalisation beofre they take over the pubs and start telling us how to have a good time.
Some have argued for a long time that Japan is basically a communist country, and once you accept that premise, the place is far less mysterious. Pubs are open all night here, comrade.
Well, there is nothing wrong with nationalism but when it is taken to the level these take it I get a bad taste in my mouth.
In the states I guess I am considered a nationalist because I believe that the US constitution should be strictly followed. I also want the US to pull out of the UN, shut down the Federal Reserve, and bring all of our troops home from overseas. In short, I want liberty to be restored in America.
Random annecdote: a couple of years ago I took my parents to Yasukuni Jinja, just for the hell of it, and sure enough the black van brigade was out in force.
Bemusingly, at least one of their vans was American.
Our Man has a soft spot for the Yasukuni Jinja. He used to have his sandwiches there beside an old steam train on his lunch breaks. Imagine his surprise to realise it was used on the Burmese railroad. The train, not his sandwiches.
' I also want the US to pull out of the UN, shut down the Federal Reserve,'
on the latter poitn particularly,you'd have my vote,but then I'm a brit,so it wouldn't count.
Why the view on the UN?I'm interested,I think it's a very flawed organisation
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