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At most, we're a student organization, and the things we can do and the time we have are limited. We need help from many people, and it would be better if everyone became more independent-minded. It w

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Aki Okuda, 23, a member of the group Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy-s (SEALDs), which has held rallies against Japan's new security legislation, and is appealing for young people to participate in politics. The group will disband after the July 10 Upper House election. (Mainichi Shimbun)

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It would be good if there were many groups like SEALDs.

Good words, Okuda-san.

It would indeed be good.

The current LDP is neither Liberal nor Democratic - unless the word "democratic" is used in the sense of "People's Democratic Republic of Korea!"

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Sad for the few students who care about such things. There is no broad effort by students to create a platform. Neither is their one by any politician. It's a dead end as young people have fallen to low point of apathy and shallowness, per their training. All Japan's biggest problems will impact young people and their futures the most. They should be organized around education reform, work-life balance, reduced hours and increased vacation time, elimination of job-hunting, greater women's rights and enforcement of work-laws, reorganization of bureaucracy, immigration reform, counter-cultural activities, etc. This kind of revolution won't be seen any time soon. I guess young people will partly live off the savings of their elders. Perhaps in 20-30 years when that runs dry and the economy collapses further, the next young cohort will feel a more significant sting of alienation and disgust at the selfishness of their elders (today's students). Perhaps then, something will change. It may be too late though. At least many communities outside the big cities will crumble.

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The best of luck to them...

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