The head of Sanseito, the rising opposition party with a “Japanese First” agenda, touted a message of support he received from the joint leader of a controversial German far-right party.
In a post on the social media platform X on Aug. 5, Sohei Kamiya said he exchanged views with Tino Chrupalla of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) for an hour at his office in the Diet in Tokyo the same day.
“I explained Sanseito’s policies and stance and received a message of encouragement: ‘I want you to stay firmly on that path,’” he wrote. “I hope to visit Europe soon.”
Sanseito, which was formed in 2020, captured 14 seats in the July 20 Upper House election. It had only one seat up for re-election.
The AfD, Germany’s largest opposition party, has been gaining momentum with its hostile stance toward immigrants and refugees.
It became the country’s second-largest party for the first time in the general election held in February, doubling its share of the vote from the previous poll.
In May, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, temporarily designated the AfD as a “right-wing extremist” group.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany, a member of the country’s ruling coalition, has stated that the AfD’s platform may be unconstitutional.
by biwook
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“Japanese First” is such an moronic and idiotic slogan; like you can’t copy cat an idiotic American slogan and still call it first – LOL
Also, the far right are destroying the planet; just look at the damage they’re doing in the US. Fascism is fascism regardless how you want to dress it up.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Two grifters, one a licensed house painter and the other a former supermarket manager and supplement huckster, getting together for a good old chin wag. How quaint.
Hope the German press picks up this story too
Two cult leaders
Russian stooge meets russian stooge.
You won’t hear S. Korea or China say anything this time though
If it was a Netflix series I’d call the writers lazy.
The reaction of the “won’t somebody please think of the Japanese” folks should be sight to see now.
Germany and Japan? Where have I heard this before… oh no. No you don’t.
two right-wing nutjobs (but I repeat myself) meet up for a mutual appreciation session
colour me unsurprised
Oh goodie. The AXIS is reforming
Anyone keeping tabs on what the Italian far-right is up to right now? No reason at all…
Ah shit, here we go again
People raging on these politicans. Yes they are idiots. All politicans are 99% grifters. But average people are becoming desperate and the intellectuals have their heads in their asses allowing these people to gain power. Why does Japan have 250% debt to GDP? How is this benefiting the average person? How is kyoto becoming disneyland benefiting the average person?
Edit: and no sanseito can’t do anything because cheap labour now does most of the crappy work in Japan that Japanese people don’t want to do. Its just shifting the blame
…well.
Probably only chatting cos daddy putin told them to
Gee, I wonder where I’ve seen this before. Did Giorgia Meloni join later?
I would say it’s mask off, but the mask was never really on with these guys was it ?
It’s clear at this point whos funding this party since the candidates of who’d benefits from their rise is also pretty clear. If anything it’s obvious that Russia has been winning then propaganda war so far,everything they do seems to have an impact. Everything they touch turns to shit and it’s sad seeing people fall for it.
Looks like History is repeating itself. Does it mean we are now close to WW3