TBF fascism never really stopped in Japan. The American occupation was so clueless it changed very little of what Japan was before; the elites just kind of divided into nominal parties.

Here's another fact you may not want to know (the reptile in the image is Sanae.)

The context in Japanese:https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2014/10/21/hitlersenkyo_n_6019042.html

shes the japanese margeret thatcher, doing her duty for "empress and empire of the rising sun"

Said to be a former heavy metal drummer.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WvfplA3a02g

I do have to say that 80s Japan included some edgy subcultures involving Nazi fetishization.

It more accurately happens like every second or third PM and then things swing to another faction of the LDP (or, historically rarely since WWII ended, another party though the last times that happened they faceplanted pretty quickly and it went back to the LDP)

Maybe Japan gets a situation like NZ where the conservitve parties and "the right" like National and Act would probably be left of the USA Democrats on the political spectrum. I can hope right?

Also reducing all politics to a left right thing is so stupid and probably the worst thing to do for political discourse but... here we are. I blame the murdoch media