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
- Context?
Embrace your inner fascist and cross the line yourself to get the chicken you deserve

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
- 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
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???

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.

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?)

Yeah that was a bit weird.
One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It's 野球 yakyuu ("field ball") btw
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.

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.

A Republican man respecting a woman? Unrealistic.

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

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.

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.
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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.

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.

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 wish it was this peaceful

I guess I really am a centrist.

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

"Democratic Party" and "Republican Party".

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

Nailed it.

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

The batter got shot in the hip!

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

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.

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

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.