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(Opinion) Abe Looking to Build Consensus for Change to Pacifist Constitution

2016-06-27 08:48:57       source:China Daily

By Cai Hong

 

June 27, 2016

 

"With Japan's upper house election just two weeks away, the country's media outlets are busy taking the public's pulse.

 

Polls by the Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun found that the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito will have a strong showing in the race. They are expected to take a majority of the 121 seats up for grabs. Together with those opposition parties that support constitutional revision, the LDP, or to be more exact, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will remove what has historically been an insuperable obstacle for the change."

 

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