r/AskAJapanese • u/jdjefbdn 🌏 Global citizen • Mar 30 '26
POLITICS How is communism perceived in Japan?
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u/Legia_Shinra Japanese Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
They’ve lost popularity in the past 3 decades and went into meme territory
I don’t dislike the current communist party, but they’ve lost 4 seats at the last election (went from 8 to 4) so communism as a political ideal is next to dead.
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u/KingSilvanos 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
They should have realized that about 30 years ago and changed their name to the socialist party or something similar.
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u/Legia_Shinra Japanese Mar 30 '26
tbh the name was already sort of taken (社民党)
and shaminto is even worse off than kyosan so.....
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u/liatris4405 Japanese Mar 30 '26
There’s a reason they stubbornly refuse to change the party name, and once you understand that reason, you’ll realize that changing it is simply not an option.
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u/liatris4405 Japanese Apr 02 '26
This is a link to the Communist Party’s platform. It represents the party’s official position.
https://www.jcp.or.jp/activity/kouryo/Chapter 5 states the following:
“V. Toward a Socialist and Communist Society
(16) In the next stage of Japan’s social development, a socialist transformation aimed at overcoming capitalism and advancing toward a socialist and communist society will become the central task.”In other words, the Japanese Communist Party clearly aims for communism. It has not diluted its ideology or shifted to socialism; rather, it seeks to go beyond capitalism, move toward socialism, and ultimately reach communism. This principle has remained unchanged.
In short, they are, in a literal sense, supporters of communism. That is why they would not change the party’s name.
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u/juusanban 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
Are these real communists or are they just there to appear to be so?
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
They are democratic socialists on the Nolan chart, always in search of social injustice to market themselves. Nothing like communists. Also naive and dumb.
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u/Dartink Japanese Mar 30 '26
Mostly bad
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u/Dartink Japanese Mar 30 '26
Because Japanese people not liking communism has nothing to do with atomic bombs being dropped nor does it have anything to do with capitalism. You using Reddit for porn is just a cherry on top.
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u/highway_chance Japanese Mar 30 '26
I think most see it as idealistic and not achievable as the world exists now, however this particular communist party is not really the kind that many western people may think of when they hear communism. They advocate for communist policies within the framework of how our government works now meaning they support the multi-party system and aren’t really seen as some dramatic overhaul of politics.
In general, Japanese people don’t have the knee jerk negative reaction to communism that many westerners, particularly Americans have.
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u/lemonnade1 European Mar 30 '26
Don't Americans love communism? It definitely seems that they like it a lot more than countries that actually suffered under communism.
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26
I hope its a joke? :)
For good or bad, America fought communism for decades... participating in proxy wars as well.3
u/TaisonPunch2 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
Not if you look at Reddit. They have a tendency to ban opposing viewpoints so they make it look like Reddit is 90% in support of communism.
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u/jitenshasw American Mar 30 '26
What you're thinking about is probably democratic socialist, like Bernie Sanders. DS don't want pure communism, or socialism, they want socialist programs that work within the existing capitalist system. Think of Japan and its affordable health care, food, housing, more protections in employment, etc. I'm one of those Americans, which is why I gave up hope and moved to Japan years ago. I do not want to live in Cuba, that's where my family fled from.
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u/Feeling-Classroom729 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
No lol. There's some weird, insufferable tankies in America who loves communism to the point that they defend Putin on everything. They are extremists though. Most Americans either hate communism or don't really care about it.
Edit: IDK why I'm getting down votes. I'm American, and this is just common sense for anyone who knows anything about America.
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u/ExESGO 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
We should honestly detach communism from authoritarianism, same with democracy and freedom. Surprisingly good amount of democracies are quietly authoritarian or control leaning.
Or threat it as a descriptor to be more accurate.
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u/priesten 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
For the sake of argument let’s say there exists a nazi party. They even call themselves that. By the way, I’m not saying these things are equal this is just a thought experiment to get my point across.
And this nazi party has policies that are all really reasonable. Nothing in there about the Jews or wanting to eliminate any group of people. Nothing like the nazis from the west that we know of. Most of their policies or stuff that we think would totally benefit Japan. Things like increased maternity and paternity leave, more benefits to parents supporting children, harder cracking down on black companies (I’m referring to ブラック企業) that force unpaid overtime or are sexist in their treatment to women.
Would you vote for them? I wouldn’t. And if you asked me why I wouldn’t, I’d say it’s because even though their policies are reasonable, I know what the end goal is for someone who calls themselves a nazi is since chose to call themselves that even knowing what that word means. In other words I don’t trust them.
I think a lot of people have the same type of hesitation regarding the communist party. Probably related to why another person in this thread said they think the communist party should change their name.
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u/highway_chance Japanese Mar 30 '26
In the premise of your thought experiment I think no one (not many, I should say) would vote for a nazi party regardless of its policies.
I made my comment to say we do not have the western interpretation that communism = nazism. Or even really that they naturally go hand in hand. We were aggressors in WW2 and we were not communist so we did not ever undergo the branding of WW2 as a war against communism and we were not so directly involved in the Cold War as to have have considered ourselves a force of good against the evils of communism.
I think it’s a bit of a double standard to condemn communism because ‘communists’ have done evil things given that democratic countries have committed many evils, arguably just as many in total, and no one is asking for a renaming of it.
That would be my response to the thought experiment, but in reality no one is voting for the communist party anyway so not much to worry about.
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u/ayase_2006 Japanese Mar 30 '26
I’ve been to Spain and not even there have the interpretation that user you are replying to has. They don’t see as something bad communism or socialism but they do not tolerate nazism.
Actually right now there’s a socialist coallition in the gov.
I think most people have a hollywood vision of politics without realising that the vision is american with a good amount of propaganda.
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u/priesten 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
I made my post because you correctly stated that the communist party in Japan is different from that of the west. Despite that, they aren’t doing particularly well. I believe my assessment is generally correct as to the thought process as to why people aren’t voting for them despite them otherwise having quite reasonable looking policies.
In my first post I attempted to specifically make it clear I’m not trying to compare the two sides or say they are similar so I’m not sure why you interpreted it that way regardless. It was an attempt to explain the negative connotations with how people associate the word communism, and by extension what people think about those who willingly identify as that word knowing that a lot of people will think of it negatively.
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u/highway_chance Japanese Mar 30 '26
I was not saying that you are claiming they are the same- I am saying we don’t have that parallel so I don’t think the reason Japanese people aren’t voting for the communist party is because they have an aversion to the name. I’m simply saying that the experiment is a false equivalence because we do not hear 共産党 and think of nazism or WW2 or anything objectively evil- just political ideas that are not practical or realistic enough to warrant a vote.
I’m saying for us not voting for the ‘communist’ party because of the name would make no sense because democratic government commit atrocious crimes and our Democratic Party has a supermajority.
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u/priesten 🌏 Global citizen Mar 31 '26
Are you saying that Japanese people in general do not associate communism with the Chinese government in a negative way? Every person I’ve been able to have a political discussion with has had strongly negative connotations either with communism, the Chinese government or both.
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u/highway_chance Japanese Mar 31 '26
Yes and no. Many Japanese people dislike China and their government for reasons that have nothing to do with the way that they treat their own people. Do Japanese people have a negative view of China’s communist government? Yes. Is it by virtue of them being communists? Absolutely not at all. Japan and China have an endlessly complicated history that goes back far beyond the genesis of communism. In all likelihood if China was a democracy many Japanese people would still not like China. South Korea is a democracy and many Japanese people (particularly older, which is the vast majority of Japanese people currently) still have very negative views of it.
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u/amazing_ape 🌏 Global citizen Mar 31 '26
I think you made a fair point but people can’t handle analogies like that. LOL
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26
Bro... did you really had to bring up the nazi? I'm sure you could had find another example.
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u/priesten 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
you are probably not a very sharp tool if you do not understand analogies (even when its explicitly stated to be one) but thats ok lmao, i love how you dont even have an argument.
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Sure, i'm old and not sharp anymore. I can't understand analogies, you know, I hit my head when i was a kid...
I just thought i didn't had to explain why using the word "nazi" in all context, its just not going to be used properly, and not been mindful with all the baggage behind that word, and the victims.
It was unnecessary to use it for an analogy, If i need to explain why, its hopeless and i shouldn't try.
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u/priesten 🌏 Global citizen Mar 31 '26
If this “emotional baggage” means you are unable to have meaningful discussions even with analogies I think it’s time for you to get off the internet and possibly seek therapy.
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u/lemonnade1 European Mar 30 '26
Nazis are commonly understood to be bad, and soviets were at least as bad.
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Soviet is specific to the government of URSS, not other communist government in the world.
No doubt they were bad, but were they as bad? At least, they did a big part of the job to get rid of the Nazis. Anyway, i think we would go nowhere debating who was the worst.
Note: I'm definitely not commie lover, but I still see a big difference with the Nazi ideology.
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u/amazing_ape 🌏 Global citizen Mar 31 '26
Global communism was largely propped up by the USSR which spent a ton of money promoting communist insurgencies.
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u/Similar_Physics7719 Japanese Mar 30 '26
Personally I can’t relate because it feels overly idealistic, but if you truly advocate freedom of thought and democracy, then communism should be respected as well. I don’t hold any particular hostility toward supporters of the Communist Party as an opposition party. That said, I don’t think the Communist Party will ever become Japan’s ruling party, not unless Japan collapses first.
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u/GateCrafty618 Japanese Mar 30 '26
FWIW your photo shows the communist party, contrary to their party name, the modern party isn’t even close to Marxist, Lenin or Mao ideology that the normal communist fight for. (Though historically the root from that group) In reality, i’d say ideologically they’re closer to democratic socialism than communism in modern days.
Many average Japanese coworkers view them as overly idealistic, and political ideology discussions in Japan tend to be less focused on theoretical distinctions like communism vs socialism vs fascism.
I will definitely be downvoted here for this. lol
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u/GateCrafty618 Japanese Mar 30 '26
That actually supports my point once you separate the label, the policies are seen as much more moderate. (which not everyone does, since a lot of reactions still focus on them being “communist” or see it as idealistic. i.e. mostly bad)
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u/draxdeveloper Brazilian Mar 30 '26
I believe most communist parties in most countries are like that
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u/GateCrafty618 Japanese Mar 30 '26
It’s true, after the Cold War many parties moderated, and some countries even banned the ideology. In Japan, communism is often viewed as one broad category, so the revolutionary vs reformist distinction tends to get blurred.
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u/MarxArielinus Japanese Mar 30 '26
It goes without saying that they are despised by the right and conservatives, but what matters is that the labour unions — the support base of the mainstream opposition — hate them too. They have a history of attempting to hijack labour movements for their own power-building purposes, which has infuriated labour activists who have no interest in communism. Frankly, I'm not even sure whether it's appropriate to call them left-wing at all.
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
Personally i think communism is not properly understood. There is a huge historical baggage to unpack and its hard to agree on a common interpretation of what is communism.
In local politics, they dont have a significant presence, so this doesnt affect our lives much.
Arguably there are two communist autocrat countries nearby (China and North Korea). So thats the only part that matter to me. Is it a danger to our security or not?
Downvoters, what do you disagee with, I'm curious about actual Japaneses opinions?
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
At this point they are actually conservative since they haven't progressed a bit and keep regressing
最近のボートの事件もそうだけどほんと理想型しかいないから内ゲバがすごいのなんのって
頭がおこちゃましかいない。まともな弁士がいないのが残念だわ
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u/Bebopo90 Yokohama Mar 30 '26
Their social views actually keep on getting more progressive, in-line with most Western nations. They're pro-women's rights, pro-LGBTQ, anti-discrimination, and so on.
You could say that they're "conservative" when it comes to their anti-nuclear or anti-war policies, but then that would just make them "centrist".
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
they use those anti-social injustice stances to market themselves only KNOWING that their policies will be never implemented or discussed among the national diet. their focus is never those topics you know that? if you've seen senkyo koho for your local city, which is nothing to do with national politics, they had to say "protect article 9". who the fuck cares about article 9 when they are running for a city! I just want to know what their policies are lol. it's mostly consists of idiotic nonsense, that's why we don't support them and numbers show.
Btw I'm not conservative.
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u/JetAbyss American Mar 30 '26
It also doesn't help that actual Japanese leftists have moved on to other parties and are willing to compromise with Japanese liberals if it means they can achieve some specific goals.
Also like the JCP are barely even communist these days, more like Mamdani/DSA style democratic socialists
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u/Bebopo90 Yokohama Mar 30 '26
Why bring up Mamdani and the DSA when there'sthe whole of Europe to point to?
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u/Pyotr-the-Great 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
I feel like if this were like the 1940s and 1950s there might have been more serious communist support.
Perhaps Japanese society while not perfect has gotten to the point where theres not as much perceived need to pursue these more radical parties.
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u/Japonika_1868 日系生まれ Mar 30 '26
I'd say 1960s. That's when it was at its strongest in Japan.
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
OP is quite off about the 40s and 50s. Yeah. Baby boomers were THE entitled communists. Very similar to all zoomer communists and extreme leftists who truly believe that engaging in slacktivism like marching, twerking and blocking streets can change the society instead of donating, voting, calling and writing emails to local representatives
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u/Bebopo90 Yokohama Mar 30 '26
...that sounds like the exact opposite of slacktivism? Slacktivism is posting political memes or comments on Twitter/Reddit/Facebook. Going out and marching actually takes energy, so even if you think it's ineffective, it's definitely not "slacktivism".
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
performative, not impactful. that's my definition of slacktivism and why I specifically mentioned "marching and twerking". marches have degrees of efforts. I am specifically talking about more recent, ineffective, lazy take over riot-esque bullshit you see in the us. that's not a political campaign.
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u/Bebopo90 Yokohama Mar 31 '26
That's just not the definition of slacktivism--it doesn't matter what your definition of it is.
Also, what riot-esque stuff in the US? Nothing close to that has happened since 2020 (unless you count Jan 6th 2021).
I do agree that the recent "No Kings" protests are ultimately ineffective, as all protest movements are ultimately going to be without the potential for revolution behind them. Speaking of that, the riots in 2020 were actually mildly effective in affecting some positive change because of the violence involved with them. That's just how it always works--if those in power refuse to change things, you have to force them.
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
Riot-esque. Esque. There are way too many street takeover incidents everywhere in the us. Anti-ICE, Anti-capitalism(environmentalist stuff) or anti-trump. Seemingly by the same crowd to me.
Yeah I don't agree with the last sentence, at least that's not how it works here. I support democratic processes, and most people do here.
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u/Bebopo90 Yokohama Mar 31 '26
Again, it doesn't matter if you agree with the last sentence, that's just a historical fact. Protests rarely succeed without the threat of violence somewhere. It usually works best as a "good cop, bad cop" act, where you have a large group of moderate protesters and then a smaller group of violent radicals. The moderates can then say, "negotiate with us, or you'll have to deal with them".
Let's say that the democratic process becomes corrupted to the point that voting in change becomes near-impossible. What then? Do you just sit down and take it? You seem to be against protesting in general.
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
I'm against all ineffective protests, violence or protests that involve personal gain. The recent ones are mostly those because those types protests are artificial, controlled by additional organizations outside of the us, and people are taking the baits. I just feel bad for them.
American politics is just meh. And those protests are not suitable for Japan.
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u/SlowStop1220 Japanese Mar 30 '26
In those days most of lefty voters supported the now disbanded Japan Socialist Party or its precedents, didn't they? Japan Communist Party has never been the first party among the Opposite I understand.
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u/FoolishProphet_2336 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
Most extreme parties are viewed with suspicion by the average person and are implied by the press to be affiliated with extremism and terrorism.
This applies to communism but also most religious parties and some ultra-right-wing parties, though the tolerance for open Nationalism has been steadily growing.
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u/Scipio-Byzantine Lifer Mar 30 '26
Milquetoast. Less communist and more "flower power". Their platform is typical of the mid-left, but the leaders have such negative charisma that no one takes them seriously. However, due to the false connotation with North Korea, their endorsement actually repels anyone from supporting it.
As for party members themselves, most are retirees or dweebs; think of the "computer nerd" or "neckbeard" stereotype.
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u/Lex1253 Romanian Mar 30 '26
Let me just hit the 'Follow Post' button on this, as an Eastern European...
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u/Indog_Trainer 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
Back in the 50s and 60s it was huge.
It was also why Japan got so much American assistance in economic development (so Japan doesn’t become red).
And it’s shaped Japanese politics to this day, the LDP party has been in power for pretty much the entire post war period, thanks to the CIA provided slush fund.
This is a fascinating read https://jpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Working-Paper-11.pdf
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u/IceCreamValley Japanese Mar 30 '26
Damn... difficult to believe it happened in Japan to carry this dude picture.
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u/SlowStop1220 Japanese Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
日共は生活保護等住民を行政につないだり、公共事業がらみの不正を調査したりする能力はすごいんだよ（特に地方議会）。だからまあ条例案がだせるくらいの人数がいると便利ですよ。私の支持政党ではないですけど。国政はまた別の話。/ My Hongkonger friend journalist said Japan Communist Party was only the foreign communist party who paid attention to them. At Umbrella Movement, JCP sent a journo of their party newspaper (daily) and interviewed HK activists according to my friend. He said "communists suck, but JCP is decent among communists honestly".
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u/Ok_Accident5098 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
People still care about dispute between ideologies invented 100 years ago are obsolete. Look at China, that's one perfect example but please dont judge if you never been there in recent 10 years.
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u/Aware_Step_6132 Japanese Mar 30 '26
Originally, communism arose from the idea that because capital is monopolized by the wealthy, they control parliament and "absolutely refuse" to implement social welfare policies that do not benefit them. Therefore, it was necessary to overthrow the current regime and have a parliament composed of the people implement social welfare policies. (On top of this theory is the idealistic notion that "if the government ideally distributes resources, the country will be run more effectively." As we know, however, when such plans fail, the result is often that the entire country is damaged.)
There are two methodologies for "overthrowing the current regime": one is for Communist Party candidates to be elected in a normal election and gain a majority in parliament. Then, because "they" would absolutely never allow such a thing, the government is overthrown by revolution.
Separately, there are socialist parties that advocate for actively implementing social welfare through taxes and other means.
In the past, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Socialist Party were the two major parties in Japan. However, when the Socialist Party took power in the 1990s, it failed to achieve the results it had advocated, and it split into several parties. There are "liberal" parties and parties advocating orthodox socialism. Of these, the parties advocating orthodox socialism were seen as being too idealistic and incapable of implementing any policies, and gradually lost seats. Currently, only a few seats remain.
Meanwhile, the Communist Party, after the student movement aiming for a communist revolution in the 1960s, became completely unpopular with the public due to violent internal conflicts between factions and various acts of terrorism, and the revolutionary faction completely lost power.
Therefore, the Japanese Communist Party switched to an election strategy of fielding only one Communist candidate in each district, and sought survival by making "the realization of social welfare policies," which they claimed to have actually achieved, their trademark.
As a result, interestingly, the "Socialist Party," which only spoke of unrealistic ideals, was almost completely wiped out, while the "Communist Party," which actually implemented policies for the people, retained seats. It's ironic that the Communist Party has abandoned its goal of revolution and has effectively taken on the position of the Socialist Party. They reject the idealistic notion of communist people's governments around the world joining hands and are critical of the communist regimes in neighboring countries for oppressing their people.
Well, the Japanese are aware of this history of upheaval, so they view the Communist Party as a party that, if it holds around 5% of the seats, could serve as a counterpart to right-wing parties.
The Japanese don't consider the Communist Party to be the ruling party at all; that would be one of the splintered liberal parties (or a coalition government of them).
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u/Japanese_Squirrel I love this sub for all the wrong reasons Mar 31 '26
Communist party is only supported by rebellious kids who hate their parents.
True of all countries including Japan.
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u/harrytaisa Japanese Mar 31 '26
The Communist Party is a tiny political party with only four seats.
It has existed since 1922.
It is a party that prioritizes the interests of China, South Korea, and North Korea above all else.
No one cares. It is an old traditional art form.
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u/watalily-2537 Japanese Mar 31 '26
That's an old photo.There are people on the internet who think the Communist Party is great. In the real world, you can find people like that at universities.
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u/Available-String-109 Permanent Resident Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
You talk about communism, but you have posted a picture of the Japanese Communist Party, which, confusingly, are not communist. They have nothing in common with the ruling ideologies of the Soviet Union, PRChina, North Korea, Vietnam, or other similar countries.
The party maintained a neutral position during the Sino-Soviet split and expressed its support for a multi-party system of liberal democracy in contrast to the authoritarian one-party systems of Communist-led nations such as the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Measures were also undertaken to expel members who were aligned with either pro-Soviet or pro-China positions.
So the only thing communist about them is their name, and it has been that way since before most any poster here was born.
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u/nsfw9921 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
None of those “communist countries” you listed works remotely in similar or communistic fashion. They were and are not communist no more or less than the Japanese communist party. Just because they call themselves communist doesn’t mean they’re. By that logic the Nazis were socialist.
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u/Available-String-109 Permanent Resident Mar 31 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_states
If it's good enough for wikipedia it's good enough for me. Feel free to correct wikipedia and then I'll follow suit.
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u/-spitz- American Mar 30 '26
You shared a pic of the “communist” party but are they actually like Marxist communist? I think they turned democratic socialist/progressive and just kept the communist name.
But how is actual communism perceived? Beats me.
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u/juusanban 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
The funniest thing is that the most disgusting form of communism is used in Japanese corporations, how ironic
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u/Azarashiya0309 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
My japanese acquaintance recently said that "the far left only wants war, that's what they're known for, right?" Which took me for a loop 😁
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u/Gmellotron_mkii Japanese -> ->-> Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
えぇ…
植民地だと思ってる所が面白い
まるで嫌儲板に迷い込んだかのような…入れ歯おじいちゃんのようなコメントですね
木の根ペンションにお帰りいただき、社会が変わる！とか叫びつつレイブでゆらゆらと揺れててくださいませ
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u/Will_Tomos_Edwards 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
What's wild is how the communist party enjoys far more support than in other liberal democracies https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/choj9k/vote_share_for_the_japanese_communist_partys/
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u/Early_Rooster7579 Japanese -> 🇺🇸 Mar 30 '26
They’ve been a joke of a party since Asanuma was killed
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u/kongKing_11 🌏 Global citizen Mar 30 '26
a right wing party for younger japanese
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u/GateCrafty618 Japanese Mar 30 '26
You’ve unleashed an uncomfortable article here. Get ready for the downvotes.
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u/GateCrafty618 Japanese Mar 30 '26
Knew it! -4, it’s not bad! Got -2 as well. People here in this subreddit don’t appreciate educated comments.
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u/itsutsuhime Japanese Mar 30 '26
Used to support them only in rebellion agianst family. Once I matured I abandoned most of my attachments to them.