On the 11th of National Foundation Day, ceremonies and opposition rallies were held in various places to celebrate this.
Of these, in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, a ceremony was held to celebrate the founding of Japan at the main shrine office, and the number of attendees was reduced to prevent infection, and 100 people were announced by the organizer. You have to participate.
In this session, Professor Emeritus Yasuo Ohara of Kokugakuin University, who is the representative of the association, said, "We have attended this ceremony and have a brilliant history in which our ancestors have survived several difficulties in the past with enthusiasm and effort. I want to remind you again. "
And a resolution saying, "In order to deal with all possible emergencies, not just this infectious disease, discussions on constitutional revision are inevitable. I pledge to work hard to create a nation of brilliant Reiwa." Has been adopted.
On the other hand, the "Liaison Committee to Protect Freedom of Thought and Religion Against" National Foundation Day "" held an online rally, and nearly 200 people including historians and lawyers participated in the announcement by the organizer.
Among them, Yoichi Komori, the secretary general of the "Article 9 Society" and an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, who works to protect Article 9 of the Constitution, gave a lecture on the issue of refusal to appoint members of the "Science Council of Japan" and "Academic Freedom." Six scholars who were totally in breach of the Constitution that stipulated the article and opposed the legislation to make Japan a war-torn country with the United States were shot. I can't forgive it. "
Then, he appealed, "Returning to the idea of the Constitution of Japan, which raised the spirit of pacifism, and looking at peace in Asia and the world beyond a sincere historical recognition, we will create a society in which the idea of the Constitution lives." Has been adopted.