Comments by "ThatDutchguy" (@thatdutchguy2882) on "Japan election: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike attempts to seize centre ground" video.

  1. That will be an unfair election either way because, in Japan the LDP party of Shinzo Abbe has the upper hand against any challenge to their rule. The LDP has been in power by the weirdest rule ever (one they made btw), votes from the countryside and smaller towns count twice vs a vote from anywhere els, and that so happens to be the LDP's power base😉. It's staunch core voters are 80% from those areas making any challenges against them a severe uphill battle for any challenger under any circumstances. She'll need to convince the majority of those voters to vote her way,...near impossible to do. People from major cities in Japan know this, that's why their youth is so apathetic in regards to voting in Japan because they know that change, real change, comes from educated young voters and those tend to live in the major cities not the rural areas and small towns in Japan. Things don't seem to change really in those areas because the political infrastructure the LDP has setup there during the many decade's is enshrined into their rural and small town culture, even their rural and small town youth just automatically vote's on what their parents and grandparents vote aka the LDP party of Shinzo Abbe and do so blindly. Shinzo Abbe just needs to keep his scheep in line (without expending great effort), she'll need a herculean effort just to have them move a bit over a prolonged period, let alone enough so she can be voted in as the next Japanese Prime-Minister. Now Shinzo Abbe isn't all that popular anymore, especially after the revision of ART 9 in Japanese self defence law's, not to mention the Fukoshima disaster with the Nuclear power station and how the LDP has been and are still lying about its effects on the environment,...still she'll need great effort to move these voters, he's practically impervious to her challenge. (even after the Japanese Crown-Prince let it slip that, he's no fan of Shinzo Abbe) Maybe the threat of the boy King Kim Young Un from the hermit Kingdom of North-Korea might have swayed some voter because Abbe's rhetoric and action's have made some Japanese nervous on that, definitely in combination with the now revised ART 9, who knows, but I'll be surprised if she manages to pull it off, so would he btw, because he's looking quite relaxed about it all, he's got every reason to be.
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