The activism of the Okinawans has long been known, but this time the youths took the lead -- and that is new and encouraging.

Koichi Nakano

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His( Abe's) interpretation echoes his calls for Japan to be proud of its roots and its tradition, he wants Japan to be proud of their country and this was seen as an opportunity to boost that.

If polls in another month show a bit of a shocking decline, then that might be the moment to decide what to do (about a snap election), if it’s another seven points, he might say he cannot call a snap election but if it’s three points or less, he might do it, knowing more bad news is coming.

Nobody is going to just go home and start sleeping -- they are awake. And they are trying to build on what the government did, and what the protests have accomplished.

They are galvanizing other age groups, sEALDs projects the image that you can be normal and fashionable and political at the same time.

On the other hand, even though his support levels are still relatively high, his policies are not widely supported, it depends on how he is seen as coping.

When it comes to the comfort women sex slave system, it is pretty much unique to Japan. I think Nazi Germany had some of it to a smaller degree. But in the Japanese case it was large scale, and state-sponsored, essentially.

(Comfort women) have gone through tremendous trauma. And in a way, the Japanese government risks a second rape by discrediting their testimonies and treating (their experiences) as if they were lies.