>>15906140
>Can I criticize or spread fake news about the ruling party in Japan?
Yes, you can do whatever you want. The LDP is constantly attacked in the press, specially by the Asahi Shinbun. Take a walk literally anywhere, and you'll see flyers by the Communist Party, random local groups, and even random postings on people's doors attacking Abe and the government. You have literally no idea how easy it is to attack the government here.
>It’s hard to call Japan a democracy when there’s just one party entirely dominating the political scene
That's completely wrong though. The LDP can barely muster electoral majorities at this point, and has repeatedly been forced to make concessions both to mass action - see the ANPO Crisis of 1960, and basically all of Kishi Nobusuke's tenure in office - and to other parties. Environmental and other protections were introduced at the instigation of the Socialist Party, and the LDP has been struggling to put together any constitutional revision plan because of the Komeito's pacifism and the opposition of an entrenched social elite.
>with other parties reduced to either minions of the governing party or dwarf-opposition
This is wrong.
>What I was talking about was soft power, which has always been the most effective and most important form of power/influence in history
Here's what you said:
"Does the West become more similar to China, or does China become more similar to the West?"
And here's what I said:
"The former, considering the way things are going in Europe."
God damn are you retarded. Fuck off back to wherever you came from, please.