Religious studies scholar Shimada Hiromi has a new book on Sanseito out this week
He details how Sanseito adopts tactics already proven effective by Komeito (which Shimada has studied for decades)
And by JCP and Reiwa (Furuya Tsunehira’s book from last month is also good on the Reiwa connection)
@tobiasharris.bsky.socialI had sort of a vague notion that Sanseito was trying to imitate the JCP and Komeito, but I had missed the extent to which it is deliberately pursuing that strategy (and literally tapping their former strategists).
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