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Hanadokei
A self-styled patriotic women's group in Japan that denounces the country's pacifist constitution and strongly supports Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's effort to revise it. Consisting mostly of housewives, mums and working women, the conservative group protests against persistent anti-Japan sentiment among the country's neighbors and claim Japan's pacifist constitution cannot protect their children's future. While the group's numbers are small, their views - which echo those of larger male-dominated nationalist groups - could at the margins affect policies from Japan's diplomacy to immigration. High on the group's agenda is a campaign to revoke a 1993 apology by then-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono acknowledging the involvement of authorities in coercing women, many Korean, to work in military brothels before and during World War Two.
Hanadokei, which literally means "Flower Clock", and Soyokaze, or "Gentle Breeze", trace their origins to the advent of the centrist Democratic Party of Japan government that ousted the dominant conservative LDP in 2009.
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