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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