Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks after meeting China's President Xi Jinping at a bilateral meeting during the Asian-African Conference in Jakarta April 22, 2015. REUTERS/Beawiharta
TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party wants to revise Japan's constitution by late 2018 to remove constraints on his defence strategy, a key party lawmaker said, an ambitious target since the charter has not been changed since Americans drafted it after World War Two.
Abe has already stretched the post-war pacifist constitution with a dramatic shift in security policy that ends a ban on Japan's military fighting overseas.
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