Japan’s cabinet approved a set of major military reforms on
Thursday, which would significantly bolster the country’s defense
capabilities. The new set of bills is designed to allow Japanese armed
forces to operate with fewer restrictions.
Under its current constitution,
which includes terms imposed by the U.S. at the end of World War II,
Japan is prohibited from maintaining a standing military and can only
keep a self-defense force to use in the event of a direct attack. The
latest move would allow Japan to act in its "collective defense" if it
were put in an "apparent danger" by an attack on its closest ally, the
United States. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, however, said that
Japan would "never become entangled in a war being fought by the United
States," the Washington Post reported.
The decision was taken by the cabinet last year, but Thursday’s legislation formally introduced it.
The new laws would also enable Japanese troops to be
deployed overseas in a supporting role alongside other nations, although
the government would require the approval of Japan’s parliament, the
Diet, every time it wished to send troops abroad.
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