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Urgent: Japan overturns postwar pacifism as new security laws enacted

Xinhua, September 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan abandoned its postwar pacifism since the end of World War II as the parliament on early Saturday enacted a controversial legislation that allows the country to dispatch its troops abroad to engage in armed conflicts for the first time in 70 years. Endi