[Photo] Students protest Japan’s military expansion in front of embassy

The student organization Peace a Butterfly Network, formed to support victims of sexual slavery under the Japanese imperial military and to protest the Park Geun-hye’s Administration’s 2015 comfort women agreement with Japan. The activist group gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on June 12, this time to protest Japan’s military expansion. For the first time since the end of WWII, Japan is enhancing the offensive capabilities of its military, which had previously served an exclusively defensive role. The move has been approved by the US in its campaign to deter Chinese influence in the Asia Pacific region. (Kang Chang-kwang, staff photographer)