TOKYO (Reuters) - When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe loosened the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution to drop a ban on its military fighting overseas, many experts said it was a step towards becoming a "normal country" able to do more in its own defence.
But Ichiro Ozawa, a one-time ruling party kingmaker who coined the phrase two decades ago, says Abe's policy is fundamentally different and risks leading Japan down a path with dangerous echoes of pre-war militarism.
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