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Japan's controversial bills "breaking off with pacifism": Polish media

Xinhua, July 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

"Japan is breaking off with pacifism," Polish television station tvn24 said, while commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bulldozing of unlawful security bills through the lower house of parliament on Thursday.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition under the hawkish stewardship of Abe rammed the controversial security bills, that will allow for the scope of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to be widely expanded in the biggest security shift in the nation' s post-war history, through parliament's lower chamber.

Commenting on the move, a report by Polish Portal Wyborcza.pl asked, "Whether Japan will renounce its pacifistic constitution?" Newspaper Nowy Dziennik carried a report reflecting on "the silent remilitarization of Japan."

Polish media reports also drew attention to the protests of Japanese citizens against the amendments, stressing that the Japanese public did not want to engage in international military conflicts. Endit