People attend a sit-in protest against the security bills near the parliament building in Tokyo, Japan, July 16, 2015. Japan's ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday rammed through a series of controversial security bills in the all-powerful lower house of the nation's Diet amid strong public opposition, marking the most significant overturn of the nation's "purely defensive" defense posture.(Xinhua/Stringer)
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TOKYO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- By fatally slashing Japan's seven decades of pacifism, like a Shogun's shoulder to waist "kesagiri" finishing move, in the very year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday realized his dream of abandoning postwar order and switching his country back into war mode.
Despite majority of population's opposition, the country's ruling coalition led by the historical revisionist rammed through a series of controversial security bills in Japan's all-powerful lower house Thursday, marking a backward move meaning the historically bloodied "samurai sword of Japan" could once again be wielded by its troops in every corner of the world. Full story
Japan's ruling bloc rams through controversial war bills in lower house
TOKYO, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday rammed through a series of controversial security bills in the all-powerful lower house of the nation's Diet amid strong public opposition, marking the most significant overturn of the nation's "purely defensive" defense posture.
Katsuya Okada, chief of Japan's major opposition party - Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), criticized in the last presentation at the lower house plenary that the ruling bloc's efforts to push through the bills disregarded public willingness and despised the parliament. Full story
