September 19, 2015

"Japan abandoned its postwar pacifism since the end of World War II as the parliament's upper house on early Saturday enacted a controversial legislation pushed by the government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The legislation's enactment marked an overhaul in Japan's purely defensive defense posture, meaning the country could dispatch its troops abroad to engage in armed conflicts for the first time in seven decades."

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