Student protesters continued to cry foul over what they call "unconstitutional" security legislation Wednesday in a last-minute effort before the bills' expected Diet passage later this week.
Aki Okuda, 23, a founding member of Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs) — a leading student group campaigning against the government's security bills — expressed concerns during a news conference Wednesday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.
The bills are "clearly against the Constitution," Okuda said. The government's explanation has been insufficient and deliberation in the Diet has been made difficult, as the eleven different components were packaged together and debated at the same time.