Foreign media and overseas Japan experts largely use 19th- and 20th-century labels to describe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and current Japanese politics led by his Liberal Democratic Party — "right-wing," "hawkish," "conservative" and "nationalist."
Japanese and the Japanese media either use and agree with, or strongly disagree with, Japanese language equivalents of these words to describe Abe and the political leadership.
But in the second decade of the 21st century, is it time for political scientists and the media to use other terms in both languages that might better describe the current situation?