As someone living in Japan, I feel like it’s a different flavour of nationalism.
The LDP is more like “we’re better than all of you gaijin but fuck China and Korea specifically,” but at least pretend like they care about how they look on the world stage. Whereas the Sanseito is more like, “WHAT’S UP YOUTUBE FUCK FOREIGNERS CAUSING ALL THESE PROBLEMS IN JAPAN AMIRITE?”
As someone living in Japan, I feel like it’s a different flavour of nationalism.
The LDP is more like “we’re better than all of you gaijin but fuck China and Korea specifically,” but at least pretend like they care about how they look on the world stage. Whereas the Sanseito is more like, “WHAT’S UP YOUTUBE FUCK FOREIGNERS CAUSING ALL THESE PROBLEMS IN JAPAN AMIRITE?”