January 24, 2016

"As the world enters 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in early January that he aims to win a two-thirds majority in an upper house election this summer which would enable him to revise the constitution.

This is not the first time that Abe has mentioned his ambition to revise the constitution. As early as 2007 shortly after he assumed power as prime minister, at a press conference, he declared that his cabinet aimed to realize a constitutional amendment. But the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a severe defeat in the elections thereafter."

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