US EditionJapan: Mass Demonstrations Against Militarism – Which Way Forward?
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Japan: mass demonstrations against militarism – which way forward?
On 8 April, 50,000 people protested in over 100 towns and cities against Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s planned revision of the Japanese Constitution, which would end Japan’s status as a ‘pacifist’ country and begin a period of open remilitarisation. This is the biggest fightback in years, and for the first time, it is overwhelmingly young people taking to the streets.
Pacifists rise in Japan as government pushes to revise their post-war Constitution
A youth movement in Japan is getting bigger in opposition to the potential revision of the Asian country's pacifist Constitution, according to The Guardian. In particular, they fear that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi might end up tweaking Article 9, which bluntly renounces war as a sovereign right. Protesters try to raise concern that the PM's intent to pursue constitutional reform, added to the decision to lift the ban on lethal weapons export…
In Japan, the youth movement gains strength on the streets to curb changes that threaten decades of constitutional pacifism. By Justin McCurry Tokyo — Gohta Hashimoto’s laser sabre is a toy, but it symbolizes the battle that this young man, together with his comrades in the demonstrations, is facing to derail the Japanese government’s movements to alter the country’s pacifist constitution for the first time in the 80 years it has been in force. …
Japan is increasingly breaking away from its post-war pacifist aspirations. Last week, the Tokyo government announced the easing of its rules on arms exports, thereby allowing the sale of lethal weapons abroad – also against the backdrop of the Iran war. A recent movement is coming up against the backwind, which has the main objective of protecting the Japanese peace constitution.
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