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October 23, 2017

Japan: PM Abe to Challenge Pacifist Constitution After Election Victory
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In Japan, members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition won a
landslide parliamentary election on Sunday, taking nearly 80 percent of
seats in the lower house of the Diet. The election bolsters Abe's bid to
do away with Article 9, part of Japan's Constitution that renounces war
and bars Japan from using-or threatening to use-military force.


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