Tomomi Inada of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) speaks during an interview at her office in Tokyo, Japan, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
TOKYO (Reuters) - The policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday called for changing the nation's pacifist constitution after the ruling coalition won a landslide victory in an election for parliament's upper house.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling coalition and like-minded parties also got the two-thirds "super majority" needed to try to revise the post-war constitution for the first time, some TV exit polls showed, although others only said it was within their grasp.
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