How the Japanese look at the US — comic in recent Tokyo newspaper.

It's more or less accurate, except at the top where the red team guy is respecting a woman.

That image seemed more like "traditional role models, clothes and heterosexual white couples" to me
- The woman’s hair should be blonder, and she should be wearing more of a tradwife dress.
- Doesn’t make user criitz wrong.
I assumed he was buying a different woman from her
- Women being owned, yeah, that tracks. But a woman owning another woman, much less being allowed to own any property. Don't be silly.
Clearly the republican picture is attempting to depict the marriage photo of Hank and Peggy Hill.
I read that as "Left is in constant debate with itself" vs. "Right shakes hands and gets down to business"*
*^^horrible ^^horrible ^^business

Y'all better move fried chicken back over that line right fuckin now.

Trade for Starbucks
"Dems get Black people but not fried chicken" is certainly a take
- Tbf dems are more likely to be vegetarian/vegan, and more likely to be health conscious types that get grilled chicken salads and shit. At least I should say those definitely aren't things I associate with republicans (the diets I associate with them are carnivore and keto) but with democrat voters.
- Context?
Embrace your inner fascist and cross the line yourself to get the chicken you deserve
You may have one piece

Adorable how little that truck is

Japanese artist: "I drew it as large and obnoxious as possible!"
Westerners: "it's adorable that you think that"
- What an adorably truck-kun you have!
That is the largest truck that someone who's spent their whole life in Japan can conceptualize. Japan is a land of tiny trucks.
- Hummer H2s had a certain popularity in Japan for a while.
  https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/03/the-undead-zombie-hummer-haunts-tokyos-red-light-district/
  It's an even more impractical and ridiculous car over there than it is in America, but they did it.
- I once saw a Hummer in Japan. I have no idea how that person managed to get by in one. Some of the roads are so old that they're barely wide enough for a regular vehicle, and rare is the oversized parking spot.
They kept the buildings and truck in proportion. Everything else, including the tesla were just enlarged to be visible.

CNN? The channel that recently spent hours dissecting every stutter and stumble Biden made and just plain refused to talk about the vicious lies and ad hom attacks Trump spent the entire debate spewing, and just didn’t find it worth mentioning how he avoided answering several super important questions? That’s who they think the left gets news from?

Like, at least put the NPR on there lol.

Your mistake is thinking democrats are "the left" lol
- All such descriptors are relative; by definition, the Democratic Party is "left."
- You may want to familiarize yourself with the term “colloquialism”.
Their change has been fairly recent. They have a right winger running the show now and he wants to court more Republicans.
He was even quoted as saying (paraphrasing) "fox news has a good model to emulate, all opinion shows surrounding an actual news show."
/Vomit
- But that is a good model. Separate the opinion shows from the news shows.
That's where they think Democrats get their news from. Notice the donkey.

How did they not put any guns?

would be controversial to portray guns in a casual context
- Tell that to a Republican

Wtf why do the republicans get the fried chicken???

Ha ha. Eat it, libs!
Wait not like that!
Or Pepsi and baseball? It should be the NFL and Coke instead of those two.
- Why should they get coke?

That girl in the red dress needs to be about 15 years younger

No older males on the right? This graphic is "woke", cancel it, demonize the Japanese, deport them.

A Republican man respecting a woman? Unrealistic.

The handshake is a ruse. He’s exploiting her. She’s probably got a startup and he’s providing some kind of building blocks she needs and she’s paying out the nose because she needs his shit. He’s probably hitting on her with cheap jewelry.

Apple? Plz. We buy PCs and load on Linux.

Dem by Apple, Leftists put linux on potatoes
- You make it sound like leftists are belarusians.
Nah that’s the communists
See! Red! Wait, that's communism.

To me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would've gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football.

(I know the Japanese play baseball themselves... maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that's influencing the choice?)

One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It's 野球 yakyuu ("field ball") btw
- 棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means "stick/bat ball", but also maybe "awesome ball".
Yeah that was a bit weird.
Japan has one of the more popular gridiron football scenes outside of the US. They also have one of the biggest wrestling & motorsports scenes. That said, I wouldn’t be calling any sport really political on one side or the other but a general working-class pasttime.
Definitely NASCAR.

Don't think I believe the apple vs windows thing, but the rest looks about right.

I believe it. And it seems more of an Apple vs PC representation in the image.
- How is apple vs PC different from apple vs windows?
  What makes you believe more Democrats are apple users?
What about now?
- That's what the company contributions look like, not what the user base is. That's like saying it's mostly conservatives who drive Teslas because Tesla contributes to Republicans.

I'm Japanese and I can tell you they have no idea. The comic just makes no sense to me because of that. Most can't even tell the difference between the two parties. They can't even tell the difference between political left and right.

Pacifists fear Trump. Nationalists think Trump is a savior. That's all. They are both conservatives, by the way.

Politics as consumerism. They got us dead to rights.

It should definitely be beer instead of Pepsi on the red side.

I guess it's a compliment that they put Japanese food on the blue side? Although they love fried chicken at Christmas.

Reds are always fighting soft drink regulation though
- Then why not Coca-Cola? It fits the color schemes.
- Good.
  Been saying forever "keep the government out of my bedroom," hate that I now have to add "and fridge."
  I just want gay married weed farmers to be able to drink Coke while they defend their farms with ar15s.

Americans known in Japan... for nigiri??

Sushi is quite popular in the US, so probably.
- I'd assume American rolls would be instead of the nigiri and plain rolls as depicted

serious question: what are the two Dems at the top doing? Is he refusing to shake her hand? Was he going in for a hug?

I think it's supposed to be clothing and talking style is more casual on left and more formal on right.
- I think it’s more literal and low level than “more or less formal”. It’s more like “democrats use this body language and republicans use that body language”.
hand gestures while discussing
- Maybe? ¯(ツ)_¯

I saw this cartoon a while back.

Democrat's View of the World = A globe with USA shown divided between Red and Blue and the rest of the world in various pastels. There are a few black skull spots labeled 'Terrorism.'

GOP View of the World = Same globe, except there are only two colors. The USA Red States and everything else is 'Terrorism.'

The left side is every NATO leftist, except the rapper is white and the basketball player is replaced with a guy whining about the existence of sports

At first, I thought the catcher was a guy crouched with a gun and was shooting the batter in the ass.

Tesla goes on the other side actually tbh tbh

I see it as a generic electric car.
- Fair - the shape is definitely Tesla tho and it would be entirely reasonable to have that association.

I hate the Apple association, but everything else feels pretty valid.

Weird how they pose Pride as opposite Church...

Well, we all know the gay agenda wants to make church illegal, so…
/s
- Not illegal, just a place where they can groom young children for sex.
  Oh wait, no, that's still churches.

Hiphop, sushi, KFC, Apple products, trucks, and starbucks? Pretty sure the line is actually blurred there.

Quit waffling and pick a side you coward
- lol.
- But I lovey waffles!
Fried chicken is definitely more Democrat.

Source? I live in Japan and haven't seen this (not surprising given I rarely read papers here), but would love context. Not seeing any in at least the first page of replies

Looks like it's from Nikkei. Doesn't seem to be a great article, which is pretty much what you'd expect if you ever see the coverage of US politics on TV here as well.
https://www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000/
ed: oh, the caption under the graphic says "Source: Created from public opinion polls such as YouGov and Gallup." (出所:ユーガブ、ギャラップなどの世論調査から作成)
- Yep, that seems to be it. Interesting, if a bit simplified, explanation in the article of US politics for a Japanese audience.

Also Pepsi should be coke. and maybe steaks and corn instead of fried chicken.

A dirt road, a cold beer

Blue jeans, a red pickup

I wish it was this peaceful

They even got Chuck Norris's political affiliation correct. Not that it's a hard guess.

Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.

Where's the education part?

Are you asking the US or Japan?
It's right there, on both sides, given placement in the graphic that matches the importance each party places on it.

I guess I really am a centrist.

I'm a little bit country~ a little bit HP?record scratch...

What happens if I'm an American and not really in either group?

Also, I look forward to this meme format's career with great interest

I like how direct eye contact is such a huge cultural difference that they put it in twice, at the top

where's the lie

The fried chicken.

Nailed it.

I'm a bit bummed to discover the text just reads:

"Democratic Party" and "Republican Party".

The batter got shot in the hip!

I'm not sure why would anyone on less extreme right support multibillion corporation like crApple. But it seems to align with what I heard about americans.

Sushi, Starbucks and rap music...

Ain't gonna lie, that does seem like the backpacker life.

Some of you who know, know.

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At first, I thought the apartment buildings were stacks of pizza boxes.

Hey, chief. Let's talk, why not!