{"id":77231,"date":"2026-05-04T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/04\/japan-sees-largest-protest-in-support-of-pacifist-constitution-as-pm-takaichi-pushes-revisions"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:14:49","slug":"japan-sees-largest-protest-in-support-of-pacifist-constitution-as-pm-takaichi-pushes-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77231","title":{"rendered":"Japan sees largest protest in support of pacifist constitution as PM Takaichi pushes revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi has called for discussions to revise the constitution, saying it should \u2018reflect the demands of the times\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has called for \u201cadvanced discussions\u201d on revising the pacifist constitution, as large demonstrations were held nationwide to oppose any changes to the country\u2019s supreme law.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an official visit to Vietnam, Takaichi said the constitution, which was written by US occupation forces after the second world war, \u201cshould periodically be updated to reflect the demands of the times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/04\/japan-sees-largest-protest-in-support-of-pacifist-constitution-as-pm-takaichi-pushes-revisions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi has called for discussions to revise the constitution, saying it should \u2018reflect the demands of the times\u2019Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has called for \u201cadvanced discussions\u201d on revising the pacifist constitution&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,3455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sanae-takaichi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77231\/revisions\/77232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}