Japan's postwar pacifism will face a critical challenge this year that could drastically change the course of this country forever: the July Upper House election.
Right-leaning parties, most notably the ruling Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will try to capture more than two-thirds of the 242-seat chamber in the election, and thus have the seats required to initiate a national referendum to revise the war-renouncing Constitution.
But which parties currently advocate constitutional revision? And how many seats are those parties likely to win in the election?
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