Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Monday it would take about five years to revise the pacifist Constitution, a project the would-be prime minister has made a major pillar of his campaign platform.
"I know (the Constitution) cannot be revised in a couple of years," he said. "I have to think about a time frame close to five years."
Abe has said he would be the first prime minister to place a revision of the Constitution on the political road map. He has repeatedly stressed the need to change the Constitution, which was drafted during the postwar Occupation.
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