The ruling coalition's panel on national security agreed Tuesday to put in place emergency defense legislation and to allow the Self-Defense Forces and civilians to fully participate in United Nations-led peacekeeping operations.
The decisions by the triumvirate's National Security Project Team were formally proposed to the policy chiefs of the Liberal Democratic Party, Liberal Party and New Komeito later in the day.
The panel will ask the government to change its decades-old position of self-restraint on the question of mapping out emergency defense laws, according to panel members.