Whether it was Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira in the 1970s or Yasuhiro Nakamuni in the mid-to-early 1980s, as long as the bill on consumption tax was proposed, it was completely boycotted by the public, opposition parties, and even the ruling party.

But the time was indeed different in the late 1980s.

As Japanese society is currently flooding with money and credit expansion has reached its peak, the stock market and real estate market have brought unlimited longing to Japan. Everyone began to believe that Japan's stock market and real estate market have no ceiling, and Japan will only have a better myth in the future.

Therefore, whether it is the private, political and business community, the disgust of the increase in tax burden has been greatly reduced, and no one has resisted the consumption tax.

After all, it is too easy to make money now. Most people have too much money and don’t know how to spend it. Even the owner of the vegetable shop is singing and dancing every night.

In addition, Takeshita Teng also made changes to the tax policy this time. He adopted a mixed strategy of combining consumption tax collection and income tax reduction. He did not blindly increase the burden on the people like in the past, but ultimately successfully promoted the legislation of consumption tax.

It has been basically finalized. From the following year, the Consumption Tax Law will officially enter the historical stage with a tax rate of 3%.

This may be the only positive driving force for Japan's bubble economy to Japan's fiscal policy.

Otherwise, the Japanese government would not be able to complete the consumption tax legislation. Just for this day, taking the prime minister will not be considered inaction.

But then again, even Takeshita, who promoted this, could not maintain integrity in this environment of money flooding in Japan. In 1988, two consecutive major economic bribery cases were involved.

The first thing is that in July 1988, Japanese media exposed the bribery method of giving bribes to political parties such as Coos unlisted stocks, and politicians sold at high prices. The Liberal Democratic Party members involved in this matter almost covered all Liberal Democratic Party members, and Prime Minister Takeshita Toshita was also listed.

The second thing is the more famous and similar Rikulut incident. In almost the same way, Likulut chairman Jang Hokage, the president of Liberal Democratic Party, used his company's low-priced stocks to bribe the major Liberal Democratic Party politicians and the president of Japan Telecom Telephone Company Hiroshi Mato. The most dramatic thing is that some politicians resigned because of the incident, and those who claimed to be innocent were also found to have accepted the bribes within a few days after taking office.

It is precisely such incidents that almost knocked the credibility of the Liberal Democratic Party to freezing point, and the Japanese people have begun to refuse to believe the ruling party anymore.

Even Ning Weimin was stunned by this political situation. Now he has to turn on the TV every day and buy a bunch of newspapers to be the one who eats melons every day.

To be honest, he knew that the Three Ministries in the old society were bad, and almost all important members embezzled and accepted bribes. He did not expect that the Japanese government in the 1980s could be so bad.

However, if you think about it carefully, it is actually reasonable. The most suitable soil for corruption is the economic prosperity. Otherwise, if you are poor, you will be greedy even if you want to.

Perhaps it is the unprecedented prosperity of Japan's economy that has created such a group of corrupt politicians.

Of course, to be honest, even if the Japanese government in this era is so bad, it still has some advantages.

Another thing happened during this period, which is enough to illustrate this point.

In October 1988, the Gifu District Court, a central Japanese city, sentenced the thugs who pulled the flag of the Republic and gave the Republic a relatively satisfactory explanation.

This incident happened on June 21, 1988. When the signing ceremony for the relationship between the prefecture and the Republic of JX province was held in the Gifu Prefecture Government, 15 local right-wingers drove propaganda vehicles to the front of the county government to make trouble, and several thugs actually pulled off the five-star red flag hanging on the 5-meter-high flagpole in public.

After this incident, at the request of China, the Japanese government and relevant authorities arrested it in a timely manner and punished the perpetrators in accordance with the law.

Several months later, the Gifu District Court finally sentenced the four defendants to 1 year, 3 months, 10 months, 8 months and 6 months in prison respectively.

From this incident, we can see that at least the sincerity of China-Japan friendship is still acceptable in this era

Japan in this era did not just talk about anti-war and respect for peace, but still had a clear understanding of it.

So in such an environment, Japanese right-wing elements do not have much room for survival and cannot cause any storm for the time being.
Chapter completed!