Kicking pacifism: Japan’s pivot to militarism defies popular will

Kicking pacifism: Japan’s pivot to militarism defies popular will [First published by The Conversation, co-authored with Anthea McCarthy-Jones and Mark Chou.] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe got his policy wish late into the night of September 18. Abe’s coalition government, which has majorities in both houses of the national Diet, passed controversial legislation that reinterprets Article 9 of the constitution. […]

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