The more I read the Mainichi Shimbun report, the more absurd it becomes.
Takaichi poured over ¥80 million into promotional spending just for the LDP leadership race.
SNS strategies, video production, PR firms, polling operations, mass mailouts to party members —
she threw money everywhere, exploited every loophole right up to the line, and bought the visibility she needed to secure party votes.
That’s the administration we have now.
And right after taking office,
the founder and CEO of CrowdWorks was awarded the Medal with Dark Blue Ribbon.
To be honest, the moment I saw those puff-piece articles about “Sana-katsu girls,”
that manufactured fan culture surrounding her, something already felt off.
Now it’s obvious — it was just another piece of the hollowed-out popularity package built around her.
With this much money sloshing around,
of course people flock to her thinking,
“If I flatter Takaichi, I’ll profit too.”
Influencers, pundits, self-styled “experts” —
in the end, they’re simply riding the Takaichi-booster bubble,
driven by the lure of money and political access.
And the reply-troll brigades?
Needless to say, they’re nothing more than
cheap, disposable mobilization machinery.
Blinded by short-term gain,
shutting out the rational voices trying to make this country better,
and even selling off the future for temporary advantage —
if this kind of behavior has become normal,
then maybe Japan has sunk so low
that it no longer even recognizes that
it is tightening the noose around its own neck.