The Japan Times editors selected these domestic stories as the most important of 2014.
1. Collective self-defense: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet adopts a resolution reinterpreting the Constitution as permitting the nation to act in collective self-defense. This paves the way for possible use of military force to repel aggression against allies even if Japan itself is not under direct attack.
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