Japan: 67 years on, parties differ on Constitution’s future

<div id="articleContentBodyFirstBlock"><p>As the nation marked the 67th anniversary of the enforcement of the Constitution on Saturday, the certainty that a bill revising the National Referendum Law will be passed in the current Diet session makes it likely that constitutional amendment will occur.</p><p>The National Referendum Law sets procedures for constitutional revisions.</p><p>In a statement released Saturday—Constitution Day—the Liberal Democratic Party said: “We have entered the stage of discussing how to amend [the Constitution], not whether the Constitution should be revised or kept unchanged. We will push for constitutional amendments and legal arrangements in the face of rising tensions in international circumstances.”</p><div>[toc hidden:1]</div>
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