TOKYO, May 3 (Bernama-Sputnik/RIA Novosti) — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Tokyo for a peace rally and in defence of the “peaceful” Article 9 of the constitution, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Sunday. May 3 marks the 79th anniversary of the adoption of the Japanese constitution, known as “peaceful” because of its Article 9, in which Japan renounces war as a means of settling international disputes and forgoes maintaining its own military forces. The protest took place amid such a dense crowd, compared with previous years, that even first-time participants did not need to […]