Japan literary group leader Asada speaks out against security bills

Japan literary group leader Asada speaks out against security bills

Novelist Jiro Asada, president of the Japan P.E.N. Club, speaks at a symposium hosted by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations in Tokyo on July 15, 2015, expressing his opposition against the government's controversial national security bills that would expand overseas activities of the Self-Defense Forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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