Japan's lawmaker raises up his ballot against security laws before casting his ballot during a plenary session for a vote on security laws at the upper house of the parliament in Tokyo, Japan, on Sept. 19, 2015. Japan abandoned its 70-year pacifism since the end of World War II as the parliament's upper house on early Saturday enacted a controversial legislation pushed forward by the government under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The legislation's enactment marked an overhaul in Japan's purely defensive defense posture, meaning the country could dispatch its troops overseas to engage in armed conflicts for the first time in seven decades. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)
