Mate how old is this meme, that's ex-president Shinzo Abe and he's been dead for 4 years.
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That's not petty at all.
Petty? That's a fucking survival tactic.
While I support this I'm uninformed, how good is her English? Are we talking broken enflish she learned in grade school or basically natively fluent?
Do you think that she works at an American Chinese food joint? She's an highly ranked politician, of course she knows English. Better than you and me both, probably.
It makes sense she would but many international ceos don't speak English so it's not a given. I'd rather know then assume.
That's not obvious, first ladies (or male equivalent) may enter politics for the first time when their partner gets elected
I mean, look up the current PM Sanae Takaichi speaking English. It's functional, but... not good.
That's too presumptuous. Not everyone can learn English proficiently, especially those from East Asia because of completely different characteristics and structures between European languages and East Asian languages.
English is often used as an international language, and for that reason it’s the most common second language by a pretty wide margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
People who need to regularly speak with people from a wide variety of countries learn English.
Isnt she basically a far right fascist?
Akie became popularly known as the "domestic opposition party" due to her outspoken views, which often contradicted her husband's.[4] Akie is also known as a supporter of sexual minorities and the LGBT community. On 27 April 2014, she joined the gay pride parade in Tokyo to show her support for broader rights to Japan's LGBT community.[5] In 2015, she was photographed standing in a field of cannabis plants promoting the revival of the cannabis culture in Japan.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akie_Abe
Doesn't sound that fascist.
Oh I did not read carefully and thought this was about the current pm/president of Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanae_Takaichi, who basically opposes all of that.
She has two melons though.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/melon-gesture-japanese-memo-afp-referral/106840234
Japan has demonstrated that they are very progressive and welcoming of foreign ideas and concepts. And also totally not racist.
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