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Japan’s Security Pact: Long Hot Summer

Japan’s Security Pact: Long Hot Summer

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Jul 08, 2015
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During his spring visit to the United States, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood in the well of the House of Representatives and promised: “I will pass national security legislation by the end of summer.”

He was referring to a new law and amendments to nearly a dozen other laws relating to the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF). They would …

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