Xinhua Commentary: Takaichi's "survival-threatening situation" gambit thrusts Japan into perilous waters

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-11-16

TOKYO, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A decade ago, the Japanese government of Shinzo Abe rammed through the deeply divisive security legislation permitting limited collective self-defense. Such move was met with widespread public resistance and criticism for overriding the government's own 1972 constitutional interpretation, which had drawn a clear red line under Article 9 of the country's constitution: Japan could not, under its pacifist Constitution,......

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