‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution
Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war
It may be a toy, but Gohta Hashimoto’s lightsaber is symbolic of the battle he and his fellow protesters face as they attempt to derail moves by Japan’s government to change the country’s pacifist constitution for the first time in its 80-year history.
“I’ve been interested in the constitution for about a year, ever since the https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/19/japanese-first-sohei-kamiya-sanseito-party-nationalist-mini-trump-population-crisis-bites">rise of far-right parties in Japan,” says Hashimoto, a 22-year-old university student. “I wanted to be part of a movement that keeps my country peaceful and protects the constitution.”
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