TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet took a historic step away from its post-war pacifism on Tuesday, by ending a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since its defeat in World War two.
Following are some key points of the resolution, which ends a decades-old ban on exercising the right of collective self-defence, or militarily aiding a friendly country under attack, as well as examples of cases in which Japan might exercise that right.
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