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Japan: Tens of Thousands Rally Outside National Diet Building Against War and Constitutional Revision 3

Demonstrators gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Sunday, April 19, to protest against war and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push for constitutional revision. Organizers said approximately 36,000 people attended the rally, with demonstrators chanting slogans calling for an end to war and the prime minister's resignation.

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Japan: Tens of Thousands Rally Outside National Diet Building Against War and Constitutional Revision 2

Demonstrators gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Sunday, April 19, to protest against war and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push for constitutional revision. Organizers said approximately 36,000 people attended the rally, with demonstrators chanting slogans calling for an end to war and the prime minister's resignation.

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Japan: Tens of Thousands Rally Outside National Diet Building Against War and Constitutional Revision

Demonstrators gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Sunday, April 19, to protest against war and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push for constitutional revision. Organizers said approximately 36,000 people attended the rally, with demonstrators chanting slogans calling for an end to war and the prime minister's resignation.

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Japan: Thousands Rally Outside Parliament Against Constitutional Revision and War 3

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Wednesday, April 8, rallying against constitutional revision and war. Many demonstrators waved penlights while chanting slogans denouncing Prime Minister Takaichi and calling for peace and the protection of the constitution.

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Japan: Thousands Rally Outside Parliament Against Constitutional Revision and War 2

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Wednesday, April 8, rallying against constitutional revision and war. Many demonstrators waved penlights while chanting slogans denouncing Prime Minister Takaichi and calling for peace and the protection of the constitution.

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Japan: Thousands Rally Outside Parliament Against Constitutional Revision and War

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Wednesday, April 8, rallying against constitutional revision and war. Many demonstrators waved penlights while chanting slogans denouncing Prime Minister Takaichi and calling for peace and the protection of the constitution.

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Japan: Tokyo Marchers Mark Land Day in Protest Against Israeli-US Aggression

Protesters gathered at two locations across Tokyo on Saturday, March 28, demonstrating against the US-Israeli military strikes on Iran and calling on the Japanese government to take a stronger stance for peace. Demonstrators marched through the streets carrying placards and light sticks, chanting slogans. At a rally held in front of Shinjuku Station,1,400 people gathered to voice their opposition. A separate demonstration was held in front of the National Diet Building, drawing approximately 3,000 participants including online attendees, according to organizers.

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Japan: Thousands Gather in Tokyo to Oppose Constitutional Amendment and Hormuz Deployment

Around 24,000 people gathered in front of the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 25, to protest against war and constitutional revision, calling for the protection of Japan's pacifist constitution and urging the government not to deploy the Self-Defense Forces to the Strait of Hormuz. Demonstrators holding placards and colorful glow sticks in various shapes filled the streets in scenes resembling an outdoor concert.

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Japan: Crowds Gather Outside Parliament to Protest Iran War and Constitutional Revision 2

On Thursday, March 19, thousands of people gathered near Japan's National Diet Building in Tokyo, waving light sticks to protest against the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, as well as moves toward constitutional revision in Japan.

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Japan: Crowds Gather Outside Parliament to Protest Iran War and Constitutional Revision

On Thursday, March 19, thousands of people gathered near Japan's National Diet Building in Tokyo, waving light sticks to protest against the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, as well as moves toward constitutional revision in Japan.

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Japan PM Announces Decision to Dissolve Lower House for Snap Election

This photo taken on January 17, 2026 shows a view of the National Diet Building in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will hold a press conference at 6 p.m. local time on Monday to explain the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Kyodo News reported. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan PM Announces Decision to Dissolve Lower House for Snap Election

This photo taken on January 19, 2026 shows a view of the National Diet Building in Tokyo, Japan. Japan PM Takaichi announced decision to dissolve lower house for snap election. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan PM Announces Decision to Dissolve Lower House for Snap Election

This photo taken on January 19, 2026 shows a view of the National Diet Building in Tokyo, Japan. Japan PM Takaichi announced decision to dissolve lower house for snap election. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan PM Announces Decision to Dissolve Lower House for Snap Election

This photo taken on January 19, 2026 shows a view of the National Diet Building in Tokyo, Japan. Japan PM Takaichi announced decision to dissolve lower house for snap election. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exterior of the National Diet Building

Exterior of the National Diet Building=October 14,2025,Tokyo

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Exterior of the National Diet Building

Exterior of the National Diet Building=October 14,2025,Tokyo

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Exterior of the National Diet Building

Exterior of the National Diet Building=October 14,2025,Tokyo

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Exterior of the National Diet Building

Exterior of the National Diet Building=October 14,2025,Tokyo

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Exterior view of the National Diet Building

Exterior view of the National Diet Building.=Date:November 30, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Exterior view of the National Diet Building

Exterior view of the National Diet Building.=Date:November 30, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Thousands of women in red surround Diet in protest

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of women dressed in red form a human chain near the National Diet building (C in the back) on Jan. 17, 2015, in protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's allegedly hawkish national security policy. Taking a cue from Iceland's Red Stockings movement in the 1970s, the protesters each wore something red to express their opposition against the government.

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Thousands of women in red surround Diet in protest

TOKYO, Japan - Thousands of women dressed in red form a human chain near the National Diet building (C in the back) on Jan. 17, 2015, in protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's allegedly hawkish national security policy. Taking a cue from Iceland's Red Stockings movement in the 1970s, the protesters each wore something red to express their anger and opposition against the government.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disaster

TOKYO, Japan - The national flag of Japan is flown at half-mast at the Diet building in Tokyo on March 11, 2014, three years after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Japanese sake named after lower house goes on sale

TOKYO, Japan - Bottles of Japanese sake called "Shugiin," a Japanese term referring to the country's House of Representatives, are shown at a shop in the National Diet building in Tokyo on March 10, 2014. The sake, made in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, went on sale at the shop on March 11 on the third anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, with part of the proceeds set to be donated to the disaster-hit prefecture to help its recovery.

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Japan's lower house passes bill to set up U.S.-style NSC

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) claps at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2013, as the House of Representatives passed a bill to establish a U.S.-style National Security Council in Japan.

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Diet committee OKs bill to launch U.S.-style NSC

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga bows in appreciation after the House of Representatives' Special Committee on National Security approved a bill to set up a U.S.-style National Security Council, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013.

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National Diet signpost

TOKYO, Japan - A signpost is replaced to read "The National Diet" near the parliament complex in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013. Authorities managing signposts near the Diet building said they have begun replacing Roman letters indicating Japanese names in the signs with English names to better guide foreign visitors to Japan.

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National Diet signpost

TOKYO, Japan - A signpost is replaced to read "The National Diet" near the parliament complex in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013. Authorities managing signposts near the Diet building said they have begun replacing Roman letters indicating Japanese names in the signs with English names to better guide foreign visitors to Japan.

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Japan to streamline Cabinet support agencies

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) National Policy Minister Seiji Maehara, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada attend a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2012. The Japanese government decided to streamline two Cabinet support agencies and allow them to respond more flexibly and strategically to major issues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said.

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Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue. They were at a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against them to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Consumer minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Kenji Yamaoka heads to a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against Yamaoka, who also serves as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, and against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011.

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National Diet Library working on digitization of books

TOKYO, Japan - Digitized pages of prominent Meiji era (1868-1912) novelist Soseki Natsume's ''Wagahai-wa Neko-de-ru (I Am A Cat)'' displayed on a screen at The National Diet Library neighboring the National Diet building in Tokyo.

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(1)Kanzaki, other Komeito brass failed to pay pension dues

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki apologizes at the Diet building May 12 over not paying mandatory national pension dues in the past. He said Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, top policy planner Kazuo Kitagawa and 10 other party lawmakers also failed to pay pension dues.

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Tanigaki vows balanced approach on industry revival

TOKYO, Japan - Newly appointed industrial revival minister Sadakazu Tanigaki holds a news conference at the Diet building Nov. 8 after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi formerly put him in charge of the tentatively-called Institution for Industrial Revival. Tanigaki, who also serves as state minister heading the National Public Safety Commission, stressed the difficulty of balancing public and private forces in selecting viable companies.

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National Diet Library opens Kyoto branch

KYOTO, Japan - The National Diet Library' Kansai branch opens on Oct. 7 in Seika town, Kyoto Prefecture, to accommodate some stocks from the main library in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. The glass building houses 3.2 million titles.

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(2)Lower house starts deliberating emergency bills

TOKYO, Japan - Members of civic groups line the street near the Diet building April 26 to register opposition to a package of three bills to govern Japan's response to a foreign military attack introduced to the national legislature by the government of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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China's Li meets lower house speaker

TOKYO, Japan - Li Peng (C), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, addresses a meeting with Tamisuke Watanuki, speaker of the House of Representatives, and other lawmakers, in the Diet building April 3. Li arrived in Japan the previous day on an eight-day tour.

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Man protests flag-anthem bill passage by burning flag

TOKYO, Japan - A man burns the Hinomaru flag on Aug. 9 in front of the Diet building to protest the Diet passage of a bill recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem. The bill was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partners, the Liberal Party and New Komeito party. The law will go into force Aug. 13.

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Online talks between Japanese lawmakers and NUG

Photo taken at the Japanese Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2021, shows a cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers in support of Myanmar's democracy holding an online meeting with the National Unity Government of Myanmar, a group formed in the wake of the February 2021 coup to represent the pro-democracy movement in its fight against the junta.

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China's Li meets lower house speaker

TOKYO, Japan - Li Peng (C), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, addresses a meeting with Tamisuke Watanuki, speaker of the House of Representatives, and other lawmakers, in the Diet building April 3. Li arrived in Japan the previous day on an eight-day tour.

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(1)Kanzaki, other Komeito brass failed to pay pension dues

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party leader Takenori Kanzaki apologizes at the Diet building May 12 over not paying mandatory national pension dues in the past. He said Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, top policy planner Kazuo Kitagawa and 10 other party lawmakers also failed to pay pension dues. (Kyodo)

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Where are we going with the price of rice?

Farmers demonstrate around the National Diet. Farmers demonstrating in the vicinity of the National Diet, the rise in rice prices for producers, and a glut of rice. Farmers demonstrating around the National Diet, Kakuei Tanaka attending a rice price investigation meeting, bales of rice being brought into a warehouse, vendors getting off a train, interview with a rice shop owner, tasting of rice, scene of rice paddies being created in Shinjo City, Yamagata City, warehouse of the Shinjo City Agricultural Cooperative, nationwide farmers' rally on rice prices held at the Budokan (Budokan), members of the Diet participating in the rally, members of the Diet showing off their charm as being on the side of the farmers. Shooting date unknown, release date: December 22, 1967.

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Voters express hopes, concerns as upper house election campaign begins

File photo taken in July 2015 shows Jinshiro Motoyama (C in front), a student at International Christian University in Tokyo, protesting in front of the Diet building in Tokyo against new national security bills aimed at expanding Japanese troops' role overseas. Motoyama is concerned about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to amend the war-renouncing Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Korean woman demands redress for WWII forced labor in Japan

Choi Gi Sun from South Korea gives her account of what she describes as forced labor at a Japanese company during World War II during a gathering at the National Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2015. She urged the Japanese government to show conscience and pay compensation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opposition parties consider election cooperation

Ichiro Ozawa (L), head of the People's Life Party, and Kazuo Shii, leader of the Japanese Communist Party, talk at the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2015, about possible cooperation in the upcoming national election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opposition parties consider election cooperation

Tadatomo Yoshida (L), chief of the Social Democratic Party, and Kazuo Shii, leader of the Japanese Communist Party, talk at the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2015. Yoshida showed a positive stance toward Shii's proposal for cooperating in the upcoming national election against the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversial Japan security bills clear upper house panel

Opposition lawmakers crowd around Yoshitada Konoike (upper L), chairman of a House of Councillors special committee on security bills, during a session of the panel in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015, attempting to block a vote on the controversial national security legislation. The ruling camp majority passed the bills, which would greatly expand the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People stage protest against security bills in Tokyo

Demonstrators raise their fists in protest against a package of national security bills in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experts remove mock bomb from Diet building during drill in Tokyo

Bomb disposal experts carry a dummy explosive out of the National Diet building during an antiterrorism exercise in Tokyo on July 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo