A new House of Representatives panel began debate Thursday on establishing legislation on procedures for a national referendum on revising the Constitution.
Under the Constitution, any changes must be endorsed by a national referendum. But currently there is no legislation spelling out the procedures.
"The debate over the Constitution has entered a new stage of studying concrete procedures for amendments," Taro Nakayama, chairman of the special Constitution research committee and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, told Thursday's session.
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