Time for Japan’s prime minister to change the constitutionIts pacifist wording is a hindrance to global peacekeeping RARELY has such an unpopular leader won a free and fair election so lopsidedly. Only about one-third of Japanese people approve of Shinzo Abe, their prime minister; a whopping 51% disapprove. Yet on October 22nd his Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner kept its two-thi
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