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Japan's Plans to Revise Peacekeeping Cooperation Law Canceled

Written: 2012-07-27 13:33:07Updated: 2012-07-27 15:13:11

Japan's Plans to Revise Peacekeeping Cooperation Law Canceled

The Japanese government’s plans to allow its Self-Defense Forces personnel involved in UN peacekeeping activities to use force outside of their base have been scrapped.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura decided not to submit the revised peacekeeping cooperation law to the Diet, citing that it goes against Japan’s constitution that bans Japanese forces’ use of force off-base to attack other countries.

Accordingly, the government’s attempt to revise the law to allow Self-Defense Forces the right to exercise collective self-defense will be postponed until next year. Collective self-defense refers to a right of a country to counterattack in response to a strike on an ally.


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