Japan’s Diet has just handed the reins of power to Sanae Takaichi, a politician who won the lower-house vote and was confirmed as prime minister in a moment that marks a clear turning point for Tokyo. Conservative voters should cheer: after months of drift, Japan has a leader willing to confront the hard questions other politicians have ducked.
Takaichi is no closet moderate — she’s a hardened conservative with deep ties to the Abe political tradition and a record of standing up for national sovereignty and traditional values. That kind of steady, unapologetic leadership is exactly what a nation facing demographic collapse needs instead of the technocratic waffle so many elites peddle.
What has many on the global left sputtering is her willingness to say out loud what others quietly think: Japan must fix its collapsing birthrate from within rather than surrender its culture and labor market to mass immigration. The clip shared by Dave Rubin’s show captures the new prime minister promising to tackle family formation and workforce problems directly, and not as a pretext to open the floodgates.
Good. Conservatives know that importing millions of workers is not a cure but a surrender — it paperes over the problem while introducing crime, social strain, and the very cultural dilution many citizens rightly resist. A nation that values its identity has to prioritize policies that restore the family, reward parenthood, and put children at the center of fiscal decision-making, not import labor as a demographic band-aid.
Takaichi has already signaled concrete policy moves: her first policy agenda points toward big, targeted fiscal measures to ease the cost of childrearing and to mobilize domestic human capital rather than outsourcing Japan’s future. If she follows through with a serious pro-family stimulus and structural reforms to make marriage and raising children economically feasible, it will be a model conservatives around the world should study.
Of course, the cosmopolitan left and their open-borders allies will scream that borders and identity are secondary to “growth statistics,” but that’s a lie dressed up as economics. Japan’s instinct to favor cultural continuity and internal renewal over mass demographic engineering is sensible and patriotic — and it deserves respect from free nations that still believe in self-determination and the rule of law.
Americans watching this drama should take note: there is a principled, pragmatic path between helplessly importing labor and surrendering to demographic decline. Takaichi’s message is a clarion call to defend the family, secure the nation, and prioritize citizens — values every hardworking patriot can get behind as our own leaders pretend they can solve problems by importing people instead of restoring policies that make families flourish.
