A day after the breakup of SEALDs, Japan's iconic pro-democracy students' group, members left the door open Tuesday for similar initiatives in the future. As Japan marked the 71st anniversary of its ...

"Mirai no tame no kokyo (Public for the future)," a new group comprising former members of the "Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy-s" (SEALDs), among others, was launched on March 17, and ...

Summer 2015 — 70 years since Japan's defeat in World War II. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling coalition have rammed two security bills through the Lower House that overturn decades of ...

"I've been watching you on television, and it's so moving to actually be here sitting next to you," said a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member -- in a voice cracking with emotion. The scene was a rally ...

Students are demonstrating against a bill to alter Japan’s pacifist constitution to allow it to send troops overseas for the first time since WW2. Five protesters say why It was clear that the voice ...

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This blog post is part of a series entitled Will the Japanese Change Their Constitution?, in which leading experts discuss the prospects for revising Japan’s postwar constitution. In the summer of ...

This article by Naomi Gingold originally appeared on PRI.org on May 27, 2016, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. When Aki Okuda was 14 years old, he ran away from home.