One Sunday afternoon on June 29, 2014, at Shinjuku Station in central Tokyo, a man in his 60s set himself on fire. Photographs and videos posted online by witnesses showed a middle-aged figure in a suit addressing the crowd with a megaphone right before drinking a bottle of gas and dousing himself with the other.
The man read the anti-war poem by Yosano Akiko, a national legend, as warning to fellow countrymen and his act of desperation was completely and utterly ignored by the Japanese media as it moved on to cover trivial and entertainment stories of the day. The incident as well as other dramatic acts of protest against the policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party (the LDP) is indicative of fundamental shift in modern Japanese politics that put the country on the wrong path according to the majority of Japanese public opinion. People are very angry and the anger is spearheaded by growing numbers of the precariat that according to most recent statistics already reach 41 percent of the working population, mostly its women and the young. In that mode the Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDs) group was launched on May 3, 2015, the Constitution Day, and has served as wake up call for the nation. On August 30, 2015 it organized the largest demonstration ever in Tokyo that according to some estimates had up to 350,000 participants.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/324587-japan-constitutional-crisis-democracy/