Shanghai Eye is China's state media. Expect plenty of lies.
And now you're going to say that Mainchi's article is fake as well? LOL
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260409/p2a/00m/0na/016000c
30,000 rally near Diet as protests against Constitution revision gain traction across Japan
April 9, 2026 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese version
Protesters raise their voices against constitutional revision and war in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on April 8, 2026. (Mainichi/Yoshiya Goto)
TOKYO -- Large-scale demonstrations opposing moves to revise the Constitution are continuing across Japan. On the evening of April 8, approximately 30,000 people gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo, outpacing the roughly 3,600 people on Feb. 27, about 8,600 on March 10 and some 24,000 on March 25, according to the organizers.
The planners also said related actions were held on April 8 at 137 other locations nationwide, indicating that the movement is gaining momentum.
The April 8 protest, billed as "Emergency action to protect the peace Constitution," was co-organized by "We Want Our Future," a group formed by volunteers mainly in their 20s to 40s, and the group "Don't destroy Article 9 of the Constitution! executive committee," a citizens group launched in response to the move to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense through a reinterpretation of the Constitution. People of a wide range of ages filled the sidewalks in front of the Diet, waving penlights in reference to the candlelight protests in South Korea that demanded the president's resignation. To the beat of drums, they repeatedly chanted slogans such as "The pacifist Constitution is Japan's treasure" and "No to constitutional revision."
Upon a stage set up in front of the main gate of the Diet building, speakers took turns, including a former teacher who had been disciplined for refusing to stand and sing the Kimigayo national anthem at a school event in defense of freedom of thought and conscience, as well as people involved in peace activism. They called on those in power to abide by the Constitution and read aloud the preamble and Article 9 of the supreme law.
A 50-year-old female company worker from Tokyo's Suginami Ward, holding a light with the message "Let's protect the Constitution" written on it, voiced a sense of crisis, saying, "If the Constitution is revised, we will no longer be able to speak out." Referring to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's pet policy of overhauling Japan's three nonnuclear principles of not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons into the country, as well as to her administration's push to relax rules on weapons exports, the worker said she fears that "conscription will also become a realistic possibility (in Japan) and my family could be taken away."
(Japanese original by Mineichiro Yamakoshi, Tokyo City News Department; Video by Mineichiro Yamakoshi and Yoshiya Goto, Photo and Video Department)