Protesters rally at Diet building against security bills

Protesters rally at Diet building against security bills

Photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter shows hundreds of thousands of people protesting at the parliament building in Tokyo on Aug. 30, 2015, against the government's security bills that would allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense and the expand overseas operations of the Self-Defense Forces. About 120,000 people took part, according to organizers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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