With the 60-day rule, the Diet juggles technicalities and the LDP presses forward its bill reinterpreting Article 9. Last Friday, a special committee of Japan’s House of Representatives scheduled a Diet hearing for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)’s proposed security legislation for July 13. The Diet hearing is a prerequisite to putting the legislation to a vote. The LDP and their junior
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