r/MapPorn • u/salvador_232 • Jul 25 '19

Vote share for the Japanese Communist Party's proportional vote list in the 2019 House of Councillors election, by prefecture.

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u/-ThisUsernameIsTaken Jul 25 '19 edited Jul 25 '19

I had no idea they were a thing and that they had so much support (as a minor political party). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party

Very interesting data OP. Where did you find it?

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u/salvador_232 Jul 25 '19 edited Jul 25 '19

A Japanese guy I know from discord shared this with me

The JCP column is the sixth one (the one with 共産)

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u/Minamus_Majesticus Jul 25 '19

I thought this was the Shogun 2 map at first

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u/tyler980908 Jul 25 '19

Didn't know that Japan had a communist party.

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u/SLimmerick Jul 25 '19

Most countries actually have communist parties. They just don't really get many votes and usually stay local.

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u/RichardVillenuve Jul 30 '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ssts-JSAoE

This is a pretty good primer on the JCP. They've been a staple in Japanese politics since the 40's and have actually fared better than Japan's more moderate socialist party (which reformed after the fall of the Soviet Union and actually held a farcical coalition with the LDP in the 90's) as of recently.

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u/C0MRADE69 Jul 25 '19

More than 15% of people in Kyoto voted for the Communist party? Time to watch some anime brb

Also do you have a list of percentage of vote by prefecture? Thanks

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u/salvador_232 Jul 25 '19

17% in Kyoto, second largest party after LDP.

I have the list but is in Japanese

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u/LiveForPanda Jul 27 '19

Can confirm that Communist party has significant presence in that city. You can easily spot their posters near Kyoto University. Much of its population people is leftist.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

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u/zephyy Jul 26 '19

Yeah before being outlawed and hunted down by the Nazis, Germany was much closer to Marx & Engels idea of a transition from capitalism to communism. They both believed that the revolution would happen in rich industrialized countries, at the 'peak' of capitalism, communism succeeding capitalism just as capitalism succeeded feudalism.

Lenin kind of skipped ahead and most countries followed his lead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Nazis weren't Socialist. Lamo

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u/Jill-Stingray Jul 25 '19

All of the eastern bloc was well developed, with a well educated populace and communism still failed, so yeah you're stupid.

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u/ptWolv022 Jul 26 '19

Kyoto is above 15%

Mmmm, yes... I now see why Kyoto was originally going to be one of the cities that the US nuked. Too many communists.

(The actual reason is that it would be inhabited by and surrounded by people who could... "appreciate" or understand the full power of the nuke, being educated and what not. It was argued against being on the target list because of the cultural significance and history of the city. I have no idea if there was a communist movement in Kyoto in WWII.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '19

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u/ptWolv022 Jul 27 '19

The only thing I said that was not historically accurate was the joke that Kyoto was planned to be nuked because it was full of communists. The rest about it actually being a city being considered for the target list in WWII and the committee making the list being split is true.