Abe's Second Chance

Overriding fierce resistance from the opposition in the Japanese Diet, the ruling party passed the tokutei-himitsuhogo-höan, the Special Intelligence Protection Bill.\n Japan's ultra-nationalists, including the thuggish demonstrators who drive through the streets in trucks blaring militarist so...

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Published inCommonweal Vol. 141; no. 8; p. 8
Main Author De Wolf, Charles
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Commonweal Foundation 02.05.2014
Subjects
Abe, Shinzo
Agreements
College students
Colleges & universities
Earthquakes
Intelligence
Kidnapping
Politics
Prime ministers
Tax increases
Vernal equinox
United States > US
Japan
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Summary:Overriding fierce resistance from the opposition in the Japanese Diet, the ruling party passed the tokutei-himitsuhogo-höan, the Special Intelligence Protection Bill.\n Japan's ultra-nationalists, including the thuggish demonstrators who drive through the streets in trucks blaring militarist songs from the bad old days, have drawn a lot of attention from Western journalists, but they remain a fringe phenomenon, loathed and despised by the great majority of their fellow citizens. At Waseda University in Tokyo, where I teach once a week, a student with a loudspeaker stands in front of a large placard, speaking in ardent opposition to any revision to Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution: "Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation."
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ISSN:0010-3330
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