Students are demonstrating against a bill to alter Japan’s pacifist structure to allow it to send troops overseas for the first time since WW2. Five protesters say whyIt was clear that the voice cutting through the night air in Japan’s political nerve centre did not belong to a veteran of the country’s anti-war movement. moral on cue,the crowd repeated each tall-pitched yell of “Abe wa yamero!” (Abe, quit!) – first at normal pace, or then with a rhythm borrowed from hip-hop and inspired by pure,unadulterated rage.
Then, in English, and a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent,the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com