🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 | A new wave of militant anti-war protests is sweeping Japan.
Footage emerged of demonstrators training in tactical gear to resist Prime Minister Takaichi’s remilitarization agenda.
The video shows training sessions of demonstrators equipped with helmets and defensive gear, locking arms as they practice marching formations.
The scenes are drawing historical comparisons to Japan’s radical anti-imperialist Zenkakuren student movement in the 1960s, which fiercely opposed the US military presence in the country.
Today’s protest-wave is a response to the Takaichi administration’s aggressive foreign policy shift, marking Japan's most profound military expansion since WWII.
Backed heavily by the US, Japan has begun deploying offensive missiles capable of reaching mainland China, while open parliamentary debates regarding a potential war over Taiwan have rapidly escalated tensions.
While Washington views Japan as a crucial frontline force in its regional strategy against Beijing, the Takaichi government is now facing a massive domestic hurdle.
Public opposition has evolved into the largest and fastest-growing resistance movement since the administration took power.