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My memory is hazy, was that after or during covid?

Abe was just a Japanese analogue of a Reaganite or Thatcherite. So-called Abenomics was simply liberal economics. Like practically all contemporary Western leaders, he saw work as intrinsically good, enriching, almost the purpose of life, unemployment as something that should always be as close to 0% as possible, and was in every way economistic and materialistic.

Thus, you are correct, there was his 'womenomics', which aimed to yet further increase women's workforce participation for the usual economistic reasons, such as that it would improve Japan's economy and reduce unemployment. I find it amusing that Abe problematized Japan's poor birth rates when his own womenomics were clearly exacerbating said problem. I don't know why any political leader worthy of our respect would even think that women's unemployment is a problem. If men were meant for labouring all of their lives, they'd all have been designed with the strength and other relevant qualities of pack animals. Thus, the notion that women, whose strength is even less like that of a pack animal, were also meant for labouring all of their lives is even more incredulous.

The Japanese are funnily getting duped again by Sanae Takaichi - alarmingly, Takaichi considers the 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher, her role model - who wants to increase women's representation in the Japanese Diet to the levels of Scandinavian countries. Given that Finland's cabinet is a whopping 61% female and all of the Scandinavian cabinets except one (48%) are above 50% female... disaster impending. By contrast, the liberal Ishiba cabinet is 10% female. If her goal is 50%, Takaichi has to replace eight men with eight women.

Furthermore, so-called Sanaenomics is simply Abenomics: I'm sure that womenomics never left the political agenda in post-Abe Japan under his less conservative successors Suga, Kishida, and Ishiba, and it will not leave under Takaichi.

Something I just learned last week about the 'Iron Lady', Thatcher. Some kike even wrote a book about her entitled *Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew*. That wretched woman was one of the worst things that ever happened to the British Right and to the White Right globally: if it wasn't for her, the National Front probably would have became the ruling party in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Imagine how much better off things would be today if Britain had been able to popularize Far-Right politics some 40-50 years ago? It could have changed history for all peoples of European descent, everywhere, with plenty of other countries following suit over the next few decades. Instead, we ended up with increased economic liberalism such as New Public Management; privatization plus multinational corporations gobbling up everything; mass consultation with NGOs, which increased the say of refugee advocacy groups, etc. over the policy agenda; broken promises concerning immigration reduction which turned out to be immigration increases; amnesties for illegal immigrants; and all the rest of the "New Right's" nonsense. Thatcher was more moron than iron.