Members of both the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito have voiced concerns about reinterpreting Article 9 of the Constitution to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense under certain conditions, ahead of talks Tuesday in the ruling coalition over the contentious issue.
One day before the start of coalition discussions, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Shigeru Ishiba said the LDP will ask the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to show specific scenarios that the coalition should work on at the first meeting.
"We want the government to show the obvious cases that the current law cannot cover. We will start discussion, first with the gray-zone scenarios, cases under which the Self Defense Forces can resort to use of weapons, and cases of collective self-defense," Ishiba said after an LDP meeting on Monday over the issue.
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