On the eve of a historic change in allowing the nation‘s exercise of the right to collective self-defense, local officials of New Komeito, a junior partner of the ruling coalition, have voiced caution and opposition to the Abe administration‘s plan.(…)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing for Japan to exercise collective self-defense through Cabinet approval of reinterpreting the war-renouncing Constitution, rather than through the more difficult constitutional amendment process.