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Abe devotes four times longer on revision issues than last year

2018-02-08 09:42:42       source:Asahi Shimbun

February 7, 2018


Twenty-six minutes and 20 seconds. That's how long Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has spent pitching his ideas on the momentous issue of constitutional revision during debate in the current Diet session.


That's four times longer than the 6 minutes and 40 seconds he devoted to the subject in Diet debate last year, The Asahi Shimbun found.


Abe's long-cherished dream of going down in history as the first leader to amend the war-renouncing Constitution is now within sight as he hopes to achieve his goal in 2020.


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