TOKYO: Japan’s nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the country’s pacifist post-World War II constitution which limits its military to self-defence could be amended by 2020.
In a New Year comment published in the conservative daily Sankei Shimbun yesterday, Abe predicted the constitution “will have been revised” by 2020 when Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics.
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