Explainer: Five things to know about Japan`s pacifist constitution
(WorldNews France)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long-held dream to change the pacifist constitution got a big boost this weekend as his conservative coalition won a crucial two-thirds majority in a snap election. Nationalists like Abe dismiss the constitution as a humiliating relic imposed by US occupiers after Japan’s defeat in the second world war, while North Korea’s recent firing of two missiles over the country in less than a month has focused minds on security. But many Japanese......