Japan's first female prime minister is facing growing opposition from women activists. Protestors are rallying in Tokyo against the push to revise the country's pacifist constitution and expand arms exports.

Japan’s first female prime minister is facing a growing backlash from women new to political activism, as alarm spreads over her government’s push to revise the country’s pacifist constitution and expand its role in arms exports. The women are part of a protest wave that has grown from a few thousand people in late February to tens of thousands outside the National Diet in Tokyo, where demonstrators have rallied against constitutional revision, weapons exports and what they see as Japan’s drift....