Remember the time when I made a comic about the assassination of Shinzo Abe potentially heralding the death of Japanese democracy? It turns out the death of Shinzo Abe will not cause the death of Japanese democracy, but rather, his death delayed the inevitable demise of Japanese democracy instead.
If you dislike Shinzo Abe, blame him for putting the freedoms of the Japanese people to the sword. Shinzo Abe tried to abolish the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, but it provoked opposition to his proposal, with one of those opponents being the late Anime music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was also known for being the composer of the Sega Dreamcast startup sound. But worse than the proposal to remove the anti-war portion of the Japanese Constitution was the ratification of the 2017 anti-terrorism law that criminalized many minor crimes, with copyright infringement being one of them. This was what really put the freedoms of the Japanese people to the sword. Even worse still is the possibility of the anti-terrorism law classifying Fair Use as an act of terrorism because Fair Use does not exist in Japanese copyright law.
All in all, the Japan that Shigeru Miyamoto and the late Akira Toriyama were born into is now a disappearing memory of a bygone era that no longer exists, and it's all the fault of Shinzo Abe.
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