Wearing shorts and a baggy T-shirt and clutching a microphone, Aki Okuda stands before a crowd, the pyramid-shaped roof of the Diet building lit up against the night sky behind him.
“No War,” “Protect the Constitution,” “Abe — Quit!,” he chants in a hip-hop rhythm, echoed by the crowd.
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KEYWORDS
Shinzo Abe,
WWII,
Terrorism,
Military,
protests,
constitution,
SDF,
peacekeeping,
Article 9,
security bills,
SEALDs
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