今日のテキスト PANEL BACKS COLLECTIVE SELF-DEFENSE

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's advisory panel has submitted a report that says the government should re-examine his country's interpretation of the Constitution. The report says the government should enable Japan to exercise its right to collective self-defense. That would provide the legal basis for Japan to use armed force to defend countries it has close relations with under attack. Government leaders in the past have interpreted the war-renouncing Constitution to mean the country can't exercise that right.
Panel members took into account security and defense issues in the region. They pointed out China's rising maritime assertiveness as well as North Korea's development of its nuclear capabilities and missiles. The report says the Japanese government cannot respond adequately to those threats under the current Constitution's interpretation to maintain peace.
The UN Charter stipulates the right to collective self-defense is a nation's inherent right.
The Japanese government says, when a closely related country is attacked, they possess the right to use force to defend that country even if Japan is not under fire, but they've never been allowed to.

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