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.

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