The LDP is right wing, but moderately so thanks to the previous few Prime Ministers. Shinzo Abe, the longest service PM in Japanese history, was barely right wing at all, more of a right-leaning traditionalist than anything.

The Sanseito Party is far-right wing and was only formed in 2020. Yet now, as the LDP is losing majority power, they’re suddenly gaining seats in the Diet faster than the recently-popular Constitutional Democratic Party (left-leaning centrists). The current PM may be a member of the LDP, but she’s just as far-right as Sanseito and shares a lot of their beliefs.

Sadly, not enough Japanese understand their own history well enough to notice the similarities to past events (like the sudden public opposition to immigration) or what that will likely lead to next.