In Japan, ruling parties propose forming constitutional amendment drafting committee

Japan's ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament. [ . . . ] The plan to introduce an article on national emergencies "has reached a stage to hammer out a draft at long last," Yoshitaka Shindo of the LDP said. The party has long discussed creating the article. For themes whose points of discussion have been defined, including proposals to explicitly refer to the Self-Defense Forces in Article 9, "We propose to move subsequently to a step examining draft article clauses," he said.
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