🇯🇵 Japan In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
7
CDP / Progressive opposition
Governing side
RIGHT
14
LDP / Conservatives
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to Japan political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
+40 / +18
Politicians
+29 / +20
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
October 2024
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Lower house snap election campaign
March 2025
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Diet budget session confrontation rhetoric
May 2025
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Unified local elections rhetoric
July 2025
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Upper house election campaign
October 2025
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LDP leadership contest and faction rhetoric
January 2026
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Ordinary Diet session opener protest rhetoric
March 2026
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Tax and cost-of-living protest rhetoric
May 2026
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Defense and security bill protest rhetoric
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology