Japan Yes!
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Important thing to note, is that it seems like the big thing that ruined him wasn't the immigration policy (though that was certainly a big part) but his rice policy.
Apparently Japan has a huge thing about importing rice. Like, national heritage and culture type stuff. And he was making some really stupid statements about importing rice (something they already do but quietly to make sure they don't run low), and the news has been running non-stop hate against him daily about it.
Its a whole rabbit hole thing that wouldn't even register to us, but Japan is Japan and it probably makes sense to them on the inside.
I recently learned that Japan still imports at least 80% of its food, possibly as high as 90%.
There just isn't enough arable land on those mountainous islands.
It's also why they'll never try to go to war again, constitution or not. Cut off the food. Done.
More like a lot of arable land has been abandoned due to mass urbanization (92% compared to the 83% of the US). Japan used to produce 80% of their food back in 1960, while having to sustain 22% fewer people.
https://www.nippon.com/en/ncommon/contents/japan-data/1079650/1079650.png
Huh. Interesting info. Thank you.
By the way, what did you mean by 92% and 83% urbanization?
I believe it's the percentage of population that live in areas classified as urban