Is there hope for a socialist revolution in Japan?

well shit nigger

Aren't they miserable though?

High suicide rates, social bonds collapsing, weird sexual preferences.

10% is a good basis to build one.
Way better than in my country.

The question is, do you focus on strongholds or do you try to expand? You will stretch your resources thin by doing both.

Also of note, Japan is a "democracy" that favours the two strongest parties. And a second one just imploded, leaving the conservative "liberal-democrats" basically free reign. They could ban alcohol, football and eat babies and they would still get elected thanks to the system. Communists could actually establish themselves as the second option.

Also of note is that members of the JCP keep a low profile, due to persecution on non-communists. Same shit as always.

Yes. Although, again, they're also obsessed with telling people whatever they want to hear, so good luck getting them to talk about their emotions.

When you're into music as I am, you keep hearing about those very strong musical scenes in Japan, heavily influenced by western tendencies and the European New Left. They produced some quality artists, but apparently failed to be influential and to change society's norms.

Why do you think that is? In the west you can divide social norms by before and after those movements, but in the East they seem to have died without affecting anything.

Westernu myuziku not yamato enoughu for goodu Japanese salaryman-des.

I'm not just meme-ing here, any Western music besides pop and classical is seen as nothing more than a novelty.

Waiting for next economic downturn will happen…

How hard must it really be to talk them into Leftism, though?

Japan did everything "right". Worked themselves to death - literally in some cases, obeyed customs and tradition, voted for right-wing liberal parties that never gave them shit, jumped into new technologies and infant industries, obeyed international law and here they are, struggling with their economies.

Everything they tell us to do, they did, and yet it seems like they've reached the full potential of the current system.

Kill yourself.