日本東京4萬民衆舉行示威 要求安倍晉三下臺

Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Tokyo to call for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign and for a law allowing the military to fight overseas to be overturned, as an election for parliament's upper house draws near.

隨着日本參議院的選舉在即，日前有幾萬民衆聚集在東京市中心遊行示威，要求首相安倍晉三下臺，並要求推翻容許自衛隊在海外執行作戰任務的法案。

The protesters, many of them elderly, rallied in front of parliament and in a nearby park, holding placards with slogans such as "Step down, Abe government" and "Citizens change politics".

抗議者大多爲老年人，他們聚集在議會附近的一個公園裏，舉着的標語牌上面寫着：“安倍政府下臺”、“人民決定政治”等。

Abe's support rates rose by three percentage points to 56 percent after he hosted a Group of Seven summit in May and accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on a historic visit to Hiroshima, a Nikkei business daily survey showed.

《日經新聞》的一個調查顯示，自從安倍主持了五月的七國集團峯會，並陪同奧巴馬歷史性地訪問了廣島以來，安倍的支持率上升了3個百分點，達到了56%。

Abe announced a widely expected decision to delay a sales tax increase by two-and-a-half years, and said he would seek the public's mandate for his plan in the upper house vote.

此外，安倍還宣佈一個萬衆期待的決定，那就是將消費稅增稅再推遲兩年半，並表示他將會在參議院的投票中徵求同意。

But some opposition parties are concerned that a strong election result for the ruling bloc may encourage Abe to press ahead with his long-held aspiration to revise the U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution.

但是一些反對黨擔心執政黨選舉的勝利將會促使安倍加緊推進其長期以來的野心，修訂美國起草的和平憲法。

Organizers of rally put the crowd at 40,000, while police declined to give a number. Some right-wing activists tried to approach participants but were held back by police.

遊行的組織者總人數約爲4萬人，但警方拒絕告知具體數字。部分右翼活動分子試圖接近遊行示威者，但被警方阻止。

When a similar anti-Abe rally took place in the same locations last August, organizers said some 120,000 people participated.

去年八月，在同樣的地點也出現過反安倍政府的遊行示威，組織者表示當時大約共有12萬人參加。