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Tokyo Man Sets Himself On Fire
AZDuck
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(obligatory for this bored)
http://youtu.be/kqxwtoTnBn8
https://news.vice.com/article/man-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-japans-move-toward-remilitarization
A 50-year-old-year-old man in a suit set himself on fire this afternoon at Tokyo's densely packed Shinjuku station in protest of the Japanese government’s move toward remilitarization.
Ever since taking office in 2012, the hawk-like administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Liberal Democratic Party) in Japan, has been leading the country more towards the right — attempting to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution to allow Japan to engage in warfare, ending the long-held ban on the export of arms by Japan and seemingly moving to remilitarize the nation.
That shift to a more war-like nation has generated a smoldering amount of protest — and today those protests literally caught on fire.
http://youtu.be/kqxwtoTnBn8https://news.vice.com/article/man-sets-himself-on-fire-to-protest-japans-move-toward-remilitarization
Comments
Japan and Germany are strong countries that can never be fully trusted not to go back to their warlike tendencies. A strong American influence needs to remain to keep them both in check.