Kotes@kotaro@kotaro.me
The results of this election were defined by a strong conservative backlash.
I myself am a lifelong leftist—so much so that you could call me "far-left"—having cast both my single-member district and proportional representation votes for the Japanese Communist Party, as I always do. However, I know exactly why the left always loses.
Most people don't care about politicians misusing their party subsidies, cutting consumption tax, or debating immigration and gender equality quotas.
Those are just topics on the TV news; they have little to do with improving our actual lives.
Furthermore, it's obvious that modern Japan is facing a need to strengthen its national defense. There's no reason for the Japanese majority, who aren't deeply invested in macro-level politics, not to vote for the LDP, especially now that it has a woman at the top.
In short, the opposition candidates have been so fixated on the central power games that they've failed to genuinely address the needs of their local constituents.