TOKYO: A majority of Japanese people favour revising the constitution, with close to a third wanting to rewrite a pacifist clause and a tenth agreeing to the use of military force abroad, a poll showed yesterday.
Some 53% of 1,945 people polled by the Asahi Shimbun on April 11 and 12 said there was a need to revise the statutes, up from 47% in a poll taken in April 2001, the paper said.
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