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        <dateline xml:lang="en">Aug 9, 2026</dateline>
        <dateline xml:lang="ja">2026年8月9日</dateline>
        <slugline xml:lang="en">Japan-Rally/Military Expansion</slugline>
        <slugline xml:lang="ja">日本-市民集会/軍拡反対</slugline>
        <headline xml:lang="en">Japanese citizens rally against Takaichi's military expansion, constitutional revision</headline>
        <headline xml:lang="ja">長崎原爆投下81周年、日本・東京で改憲・軍拡反対の市民集会 「平和憲法は未来のために守らねば」</headline>
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Rally participants gathered in the Japanese capital on Aug 9, which also marked the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, to voice strong opposition to the government's push to boost defense spending and revise the war-renouncing Article 9 of the national Constitution. 

Holding anti-war placards, chanting anti-war slogans, protesters warned that remilitarizing the nation would betray its pacifist ideals and endanger future generations. 

"Defense spending keeps increasing. Based on Article 9 of the Constitution, Japan pledged never to wage war again, yet it keeps strengthening its military. I find this extremely dangerous. They are also trying to revise Article 9. So I believe that for the sake of future young people and children, Article 9 must never be revised. Japan decided never to repeat the mistakes of waging a war after its defeat in WWII. I think we should continue to safeguard that commitment," said a rally participant. 

For many in the crowd, the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remains a powerful moral compass as they believe that militarization offers no path forward for a nation that knows the devastation of war firsthand. 

"Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered atomic bombings. Yet now Japan is going to deploy missiles. I believe Japan must never possess nuclear weapons," said another rally participant. 

"I believe Japan has no future if it goes down the path of militarization. Nuclear weapons are absolutely bad for Japan," said a third woman, also a rally participant. 

Beyond moral objections, some demonstrators said that Japan's economic vulnerabilities articulate that saber-rattling is a luxury the country cannot afford. 

"I can't help but wonder what on earth a country with only a 36 percent food self-sufficiency rate would be fighting with. I have always been opposed to war, and I'm deeply dissatisfied with what the Takaichi administration is doing now," said another rally participant. 

Other rally participants said that seeing revision of the Constitution could unleash unchecked military expansion, stripping away the very safeguards that have kept Japan at peace for eight decades. 

"Article 9 of the Constitution is the key. If the nature of the Self-Defense Forces is elevated to a level beyond collective self-defense, which is explicitly written into the Constitution, it will allow the authority of the Self-Defense Forces to expand without limit. So no matter what, I want to prevent this from happening," said one more rally participant. 

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　米国による日本・長崎への原爆投下から81年となった9日、東京都内で市民集会が開かれた。 

　参加者たちは、戦争反対のプラカードを手に、平和憲法の改定推進や防衛費の大幅増額など高市政権による軍事拡大路線に反対の声をあげ、平和を訴えた。 

　＜集会参加者＞ 
　「どんどん軍事費ばっかり拡大をして、日本が9条を持つ、二度とも戦争をしないっていう国であるにも関わらず、どんどん軍備増強していて、すごく危険で、9条を変えようとしてるんですよ。だから、それは未来、やっぱり若い人とか子どもたちのためにも、絶対9条を変えちゃいけないと思ってるんですね、私は。敗戦で、日本は戦争に負けて二度とやっぱりそういうことを起こさないって決めた国なので、それをやっぱり守っていきたいと思いますね」 

　多くの参加者にとって、広島と長崎の惨禍は今なお心に刻まれている痛みだ。再軍備化の道には未来はないと確信しているという。 

　＜集会参加者＞ 
　「唯一の被爆国の日本が、やっぱりミサイルをもって、ミサイル配備ですとか、そういう核兵器とか持つことは、絶対にやってはいけないと思いますし」 

　＜集会参加者＞ 
　「本当に軍事に未来はないですし、核兵器ももう絶対悪だと思ってるので」 

　集会では、食料自給率の低さなど経済的脆弱性を挙げて、軍事費の増額や憲法改定が安全保障の向上ではなく、むしろ国を弱体化させると警告する声もある。

　＜集会参加者＞ 
　「36%しか自給率がない国で、一体何を戦うのかというふうな気持ちです。そもそも戦争自体には反対ですが、やってることがめちゃくちゃだと」 

　また、憲法改定が自衛隊の権限を無制限に拡大し、日本が戦後80年にわたって守り続けてきた平和の基盤を根本から崩すとの懸念も。参加者らは高市政権の安全保障政策の転換に強い危機感を募らせている。 

　＜集会参加者＞ 
　「やはり9条が肝になってくるんじゃないでしょうか。で、自衛隊の性格を集団的自衛権以上のものにして、憲法に明記するということになると、これは自衛隊の権限を無限に拡張するものになるので、やっぱり何としても阻止したいという思いがあります」 
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        <description role="CCTVPLUSdescrole:audiolanguage" xml:lang="ja">日本語/自然音声</description>
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Tokyo, Japan - Aug 9, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of protesters 
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Protester (name not given) (partially overlaid with shots 3-4): 
"Defense spending keeps increasing. Based on Article 9 of the Constitution, Japan pledged never to wage war again, yet it keeps strengthening its military. I find this extremely dangerous. They are also trying to revise Article 9. So I believe that for the sake of future young people and children, Article 9 must never be revised. Japan decided never to repeat the mistakes of waging a war after its defeat in WWII. I think we should continue to safeguard that commitment."
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
3. Placard showing contents of Article 9 of Japanese Constitution 
4. Protesters 
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Protester (name not given): 
"Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered atomic bombings. Yet now Japan is going to deploy missiles. I believe Japan must never possess nuclear weapons."
6. Anti-war placard 
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Protester (name not given):  
"I believe Japan has no future if it goes down the path of militarization. Nuclear weapons are absolutely bad for Japan."
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Protester (name not given): 
"I can't help but wonder what on earth a country with only a 36 percent food self-sufficiency rate would be fighting with. I have always been opposed to war, and I'm deeply dissatisfied with what the Takaichi administration is doing now."
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Protester (name not given):  
"Article 9 of the Constitution is the key. If the nature of the Self-Defense Forces is elevated to a level beyond collective self-defense, which is explicitly written into the Constitution, it will allow the authority of the Self-Defense Forces to expand without limit. So no matter what, I want to prevent this from happening."
10. Various of anti-war placards 
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日本・東京-2026年8月9日（CCTV-中国大陸での使用は不可）
1.市民集会、参加者
2.同録（日本語）集会参加者（氏名不詳）（一部インサート、ショット3-4）
「どんどん軍事費ばっかり拡大をして、日本が9条を持つ、二度とも戦争をしないっていう国であるにも関わらず、どんどん軍備増強していて、すごく危険で、9条を変えようとしてるんですよ。だから、それは未来、やっぱり若い人とか子どもたちのためにも、絶対9条を変えちゃいけないと思ってるんですね、私は。敗戦で、日本は戦争に負けて二度とやっぱりそういうことを起こさないって決めた国なので、それをやっぱり守っていきたいと思いますね」 
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++ 
3.プラカードに憲法9条の内容
4.集会参加者
++SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++ 
5.同録（日本語）集会参加者（氏名不詳）
「唯一の被爆国の日本が、やっぱりミサイルをもって、ミサイル配備ですとか、そういう核兵器とか持つことは、絶対にやってはいけないと思いますし」 
6.プラカードに「憲法9条まもろう　非戦　平和」
7.同録（日本語）集会参加者（氏名不詳）
「本当に軍事に未来はないですし、核兵器ももう絶対悪だと思ってるので」 
8.同録（日本語）集会参加者（氏名不詳）
「36%しか自給率がない国で、一体何を戦うのかというふうな気持ちです。そもそも戦争自体には反対ですが、やってることがめちゃくちゃだと」 
9.同録（日本語）集会参加者（氏名不詳）
「やはり9条が肝になってくるんじゃないでしょうか。で、自衛隊の性格を集団的自衛権以上のものにして、憲法に明記するということになると、これは自衛隊の権限を無限に拡張するものになるので、やっぱり何としても阻止したいという思いがあります」 
10.プラカードに「日本戦争準備してる」「NO WAR」

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