Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling coalition party won a majority in the country's upper house elections on Sunday, but failed to secure enough votes needed for Abe's long-held dream of revising the constitution.
on Sunday — but they failed to secure enough votes needed for Abe's long-held dream of revising the constitution.
But the coalition fell short of a two-thirds "super majority" — or 85 seats — needed to revise the country's constitution. The move would allow Japan to further legitimize its military, and end a ban that has kept its armed forces from fighting abroad since 1945, when World War II ended. "The fact that pro-constitutional revision forces lack a supermajority in the upper house after today's elections will not prevent Abe from continuing to push to revise the constitution before he leaves office," Scott Seaman, director of Asia at Eurasia Group, wrote in a note on Sunday.
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