A protester was removed by security officers after Japan’s lower house of Parliament passed a national secrets act on Tuesday.Credit...Toru Hanai/Reuters TOKYO — Brushing past angry street protests and apocalyptic editorials in leading newspapers, Japan’s conservative prime minister, Shinzo Abe, appears set to achieve one of the first items on his legislative agenda to roll back his nation’s postw
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