{"id":12605,"date":"2026-04-27T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:18:18","slug":"japans-takaichi-faces-women-led-backlash-over-constitution-reform-push-arms-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/12605\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Takaichi faces women-led backlash over constitution reform push, arms build-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan<\/a>\u2019s first female prime minister is facing a growing backlash from women new to political activism, as alarm spreads over her government\u2019s push to revise the country\u2019s pacifist constitution and expand its role in arms exports.<\/p>\n

The women are part of a protest wave that has grown from a few thousand people in late February to tens of thousands outside the National Diet in Tokyo, where demonstrators have rallied against constitutional revision, weapons exports and what they see as Japan\u2019s drift away from its post-war peace commitments.<\/p>\n

For many of them, the issue is not simply whether Japan should update a decades-old charter but whether the country is abandoning the restraints that helped define its place in Asia after World War II.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel anger that Prime Minister [Sanae] Takaichi<\/a> does not understand that the constitution exists to bind those in power,\u201d Reina Tashiro, a Tokyo business owner involved in the volunteer group We Want Our Future (WWOF), told the Mainichi newspaper.\"JapaneseJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a parliamentary session on Monday. Takaichi has made constitutional revision a key part of her agenda. Photo: Kyodo<\/p>\n

WWOF has been one of the main groups behind the demonstrations, co-organising the \u201cEmergency Action to Protect the Peace Constitution\u201d rallies with a civic group campaigning against changes to the constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s first female prime minister is facing a growing backlash from women new to political activism, as alarm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[185,72,12,8,2240,10571,3411,33,1922,10572,2299,52,10570,2144],"class_list":{"0":"post-12605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-liberal-democratic-party","13":"tag-mainichi","14":"tag-national-diet","15":"tag-nihon","16":"tag-north-korea","17":"tag-reina-tashiro","18":"tag-takaichi","19":"tag-tokyo","20":"tag-we-want-our-future","21":"tag-world-war-ii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}