The legislation led to a reinterpretation of a key pacifist clause in Japan's Constitution, allowing Japan's Self-Defense Forces to exercise collective self-defense.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also the leader of the LDP, has proposed amending Article 9 of the Constitution for the first time since World War II to achieve his controversial career goal of normalizing Japan's military forces and broadening their international footprint.
Abe's aims to further loosen the constraints on Japan's military by way of amending Japan's Supreme Law requires two-thirds majority support in both chambers of parliament and a majority in a public referendum.
The contentious notion is opposed by the majority of Japanese citizens according to the latest media polls and has raised concerns in the regional and international community.
This is owing to Japan's past wartime atrocities and propensity to whitewash them and continued increases to its military spending and planned acquisitions of next-generation offensive military hardware under Abe.
Such acquisitions run contrary to Japan's anti-war, defense-only Constitution, legal scholars and military analysts have attested, and could further unsettle regional peace and stability.
With the breakdown in negotiations between both parties coming just days before the Diet session is set to convene on Monday, sources close to the matter said Wednesday that a group of senior lower house members from the Democratic Party may seek to forge an alliance with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
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