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The Abe government is pushing a group of security bills through the Japanese Diet that will reinterpret Japan’s pacifist constitution to allow “collective self-defense.” James joins Sputnik Radio to discuss the significance of this change and the massive protest that took place in Tokyo yesterday against this legislation.

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