Novelist-turned-nun Setouchi against national security bills

Novelist-turned-nun Setouchi against national security bills

Noted novelist-turned-nun Jakucho Setouchi, recovering from compression fracture and cancer at age 93, takes part in a civic group-organized protest rally near the Diet building in Tokyo on June 18, 2015, against a package of national security bills tabled in parliament by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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