There's a video game I love to play called Civilization. It's up to its seventh iteration now; however, its sixth is better, but I digress. I have zero doubt that many of my readers are also fans of this game, each with their favorite entry in mind.
The game is, essentially, a high-tech game of Risk. You manage troops, resources, make diplomatic deals, and try to achieve victory against other players on the board. You can achieve different types of victories, such as domination, science, diplomacy, religion, and, of course, cultural. The cultural victory is one of those that takes the longest to achieve, and can be one of the most difficult, as you can find yourself overrun by foreign troops or defeated through scientific progression.
However, it's fun watching your country's culture become the dominant one on the map and become so pervasive that other countries' territories voluntarily leave their country to join yours. If your military isn't exactly the most dangerous and you took too long to invent the wheel, a cultural victory is a good fit for your game.
I bring this up because Civilization helped me understand the importance of culture within a society. While a mere game, it often reflects real-life facts about human civilization, and what's funny is that we watched something of a total rejection of cultural intrusion play out in Japan. As my colleague Streiff noted in his recent article about the country's snap election, the Trump-friendly Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, just secured herself a super majority, with immigration control being one of the key issues:
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party and its parliamentary allies are poised to win a supermajority after Sunday's election. Takaichi, Japan's first female prime minister (see It's Official: Japan Elects First-Ever Woman Prime Minister – RedState), is expected to control 348 of the 465 seats either directly or through the LDP's alliance with the Nippon Ishin (Japan Innovation) Party. In fact, the LDP is estimated to have gained 115 seats, giving it a supermajority without relying on a coalition government.
This gives Takaichi a supermajority (310 seats constitute a supermajority), allowing the LDP to pass legislation even if vetoed by the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Japanese parliament, where the LDP and allies control 120 of 248 seats.
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Making matters worse, the LDP had been the ruling party, directly or in coalition, since 1958. That brought complacency and corruption. At some point along the way, Japan's equivalent of Chuck Schumer and Mark Warner had decided that bringing in Chinese and Muslim immigrants was a great way to alleviate Japan's labor shortage. I mean, importing disloyal minorities is much easier than making babies, amirite? Along the way, Japanese institutions and people lost faith in themselves and in Japanese culture.
Read: Japan's Prime Minister Wins Supermajority and Charts New Course for Japan and Western Pacific
I find the reaction to the immigration issue in Japan fascinating, as it exposes an inconvenient truth that the folks at Davos would rather you not see.
Japan's a highly homogeneous country, hovering somewhere around 98 percent Japanese born and raised. Now, this level of homogeneity in Japan, with its culture of hyper-polite customs and obedience to traditions, allows this country to have a high-trust society. Crime is incredibly low, and women can generally walk the streets alone at night without worrying about being sexually assaulted. There aren't even any trash cans outside, as Japanese people are expected to carry their trash with them until they get home, yet the streets are incredibly clean.
Now, this has made the Japanese people incredibly sensitive to cultural change as a nation, probably in a way that we here in America can't fully understand, as we were a melting pot from almost the word "go."
Japan felt the parallel society that was forming far more intensely than we did, and with little doubt in their mind, decided they didn't like it. Nor should they. Chinese Communists and Muslim radicals are a pox on any society they touch.
That group doesn't have a military that could beat the capitalist societies or their alliances. Their science is more imitative than innovative. They can only find trustworthy diplomatic relations with countries that are often just as behind as them, so they have to aim for the cultural victory. They immigrate, infect, and alter from the inside.
Japan simply said "no thanks" and voted for the party that was more likely to believe in its people and love its culture. It didn't buy into the globalist idea that "diversity is our strength" because, judging by the effects this Davos-defined "diversity" has on European countries, it's more like a cancer. The leadership has already begun an ICE-like deportation of illegal immigrants. One clip shows them using a "hogo sheet" to restrain an intoxicated migrant and haul them off.
Japan calmly restraining a foreign migrant, rolling him up like a sushi roll, and escorting him away while the rest of the country goes on with its day 👏
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) February 9, 2026
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The point is, no matter who you import, if you import enough of a certain group of people, a parallel society will form, and it will be at odds with the dominant society at best, or at war with it at worst. Muslim immigrants are open and honest about being in the latter camp, noting that all cultures will eventually fall before their culture's feet through a mixture of cultural infection and out-breeding the native populace.
This often results in animosity, crime, rape, degradation, and entropy. Europe is learning this the hard way because Western cultures like ours tend to be more on the side of welcoming others into the plenty. Japan, though highly friendly with Western culture, is not a Western culture. They don't tolerate parallel societies disrupting their nation because they've been seeing the negative results of it like a cold sore on an otherwise pristine face.
The U.S. was built for melting cultures into one, but as Japan shows, some cultures just don't want to assimilate; they want to dominate, and these cultures have to be rejected and ejected. If they cannot or will not meld with the greater culture, then they should not be welcome, because the only thing they're going to bring is disruption and danger.
