Japan‘s pacifist constitution is an example for the world despite changes that have cleared the way for its troops to fight overseas for the first time since World War Two, the head of a group tipped as a Nobel Peace Prize contender said.

Naomi Takasu, 38, heads a group that seeks to uphold and preserve the constitution‘s Article 9, under which the Japanese people „forever renounce war as a sovereign right … and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes“.