(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Kyo july 01 (qna) - japan's ruling parties agreed tuesday on a major overhaul of the country's postwar security policy allowing the exercise of the right to collective self-defense by reinterpreting the pacifist constitution
the cabinet of japan's prime minister shinzo abe is expected to approve the change later tuesday despite criticism from the public and even within the ruling bloc that the war-renouncing article 9 of the constitution would be gutted according to japan's (kyodo) news agency
abe will meet new komeito chief natsuo yamaguchi who was forced to soften the party's opposition ahead of a cabinet meeting and hold a press conference in the afternoon to explain his views on the controversial issue. (qna
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