{"id":11671,"date":"2015-08-31T19:44:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2015-08-31T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:44:51","slug":"unusually-massive-protests-erupt-in-japan-against-forthcoming-war-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11671","title":{"rendered":"Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming \u201cWar Legislation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/08\/31\/unusually-massive-protests-erupt-in-japan-against-forthcoming-war-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming \u201cWar Legislation\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26756\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-31-at-11.29.17-AM-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-31 at 11.29.17 AM\" width=\"428\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you aren\u2019t up to speed on your Japanese history, the nation\u2019s post WWII Constitution prohibits military action unless it\u2019s in self-defense. Clearly a sensible approach, which is why the current Japanese government, led by the demonstrably insane and incompetent\u00a0Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wants to get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>This story is very important. Not only will this action increase the likelihood of World War III in the Far East, but it\u2019s another important example of a government acting against the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Polling has indicated the Japanese public is against a pivot toward militarization and war, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0is pushing forward nonetheless. In fact, the current legislation to allow overseas military intervention has already passed the lower house of government. This prompted many Japanese to emerge from their decades long political apathy and get out into the streets. It\u2019s estimated these\u00a0protests were the largest in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AS_JAPAN_PROTEST?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\"><em>AP<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><em>TOKYO (AP) \u2014 Mothers holding their children\u2019s hands stood in the sprinkling rain, some carrying anti-war placards, while students chanted slogans to the beat of a drum against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his defense policies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><em>Japan is seeing new faces join the ranks of protesters typically made up of labor union members and graying leftist activists. Tens of thousands filled the streets outside Tokyo\u2019s parliament on Sunday to rally against security legislation expected to pass in September.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><em>\u201cNo to war legislation!\u201d \u201cScrap the bills now!\u201d and \u201cAbe, quit!\u201d they chanted in one of the biggest protests in recent memory. The bills would expand Japan\u2019s military role under a reinterpretation of the country\u2019s war-renouncing constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><em>In Japan, where people generally don\u2019t express political views in public, such rallies have largely diminished since often-violent student protests in the 1960s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusually Massive Protests Erupt in Japan Against Forthcoming \u201cWar Legislation\u201d In case you aren\u2019t up to speed on your Japanese history, the nation\u2019s post WWII Constitution prohibits military action unless it\u2019s in self-defense. Clearly a sensible approach, which is why the current Japanese government, led by the demonstrably insane and incompetent\u00a0Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[452,8582,8583,4285,657,2189],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-japan","tag-japanese-constitution","tag-japanese-militarization","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-protests","tag-shinzo-abe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}