Japan: Abe pushes through reform of pacifist constitution despite widespread protests
By 18 September 2015
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![Lawmakers crowd around Yoshitada Konoike, chairman on the upper house special committee on security, as Masahisa Sato, right, of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s fist lands on opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hiroyuki Konishi, top, during a vote at an upper house special committee session on security-related legislation at the parliament in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015 [photo credit: Yuya Shino/ Reuters] Lawmakers crowd around Yoshitada Konoike, chairman on the upper house special committee on security, as Masahisa Sato, right, of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s fist lands on opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hiroyuki Konishi, top, during a vote at an upper house special committee session on security-related legislation at the parliament in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015 [photo credit: Yuya Shino/ Reuters]](/sites/default/files/japan_-_reuters.jpg)
Lawmakers crowd around Yoshitada Konoike, chairman on the upper house special committee on security, as Masahisa Sato, right, of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s fist lands on opposition Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hiroyuki Konishi, top, during a vote at an upper house special committee session on security-related legislation at the parliament in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015 [photo credit: Yuya Shino/ Reuters]
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