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Parroting the U.S. Far-Right: Former Fringe Party Politician and Conspiracy Entrepreneur Yukihisa Oikawa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Linda Havenstein  and
Fabian Schäfer
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This article investigates the popular social media channels of former Happiness Realization Party official Yukihisa Oikawa, who has built himself a profile as a media personality within the Japanese language conspiracy narrative realm. In our analysis, we put a particular focus on his statements concerning the Russo-Ukrainian war and examine them within the context of his larger ideological and political views. Using mixed quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis methods, we are able to trace radicalization and semantic shifts within his terminology, as well as investigate the connection between metapolitical communication strategies and the monetization of anti-media and conspiracist disinformation – a connection that is common for the political strategy of the global far-right.

Keywords

YouTubeTwitter/XSocial mediaCorpus analysisHappy ScienceHappiness Realization PartyJapanese politicsU.S. Far-RightTrumpism
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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , June 2024 , e4
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