In Japan, the two significant opposition parties just announced to form a new party to fight for the upcoming general election, which is said to be held in the former half of February. The Constitutional Democratic Party and Komei-to party have just agreed on stepping forward in this regard. Japanese political media spontaneously responded to this news by saying it’ll give a awfully negative impact to the Liberal Democratic Party in the election, since it has been totally dependent on support from the Soka-gakkai, on which the Komei-to is de facto based both politically and financially. In addition, political journalists in Tokyo comment on this issue, saying other newly founded mini-parties such as Sansei-to as well as National Democratic Party will succeed to get more seats in the Diet this time, although the LDP will loose many to the contrary. Well, PM Sanae Takaichi is still popular personally at this juncture. However, it’s the declining popularity of her own party that really matters.
Having said that, I’m now remembering what happened in early 90s in Japan: A major part of the LDP left the previous LDP and immediately founded a new party called “Shinshin-to” with the then Komei-to, which will successfully get the majority in the Diet to defeat the LDP. This time, the very critical juncture would be the moment, at which Shigeru Ishiba, the former Japanese PM, and his colleagues will depart from the LDP and join the new movement I just described. Sanae Takaichi was a member of the Shinshin-to, by the way.

The history obviously repeats itself. The point is, whenever the history repeats itself, it’s rather worthy of “laughing”, they say. Let’s see what will take place from now on. Stay alarmed (*Whatever will occur at this political level, the very fundamental scenario of the global community will never change. Keep it in your mind.).


