About 1,000 people from across the country converged on Tokyo Saturday to hold an assembly to speak out and counter any moves to revise the pacifist Constitution.
The assembly was organized by the Article 9 Association, which was founded in 2004 by nine pro-Constitution intellectuals, including Makoto Oda, who passed away in July at the age of 75, and Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature.
"People are now thinking that Japan should not blindly follow unreasonable wars led by the United States, and recent surveys show the majority of them believe Japan should not revise war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution," Yoichi Komori, secretary general of the association, said at the start of the forum.