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  • A majority of Japanese say they don′t want the country′s post－war pacifist constitution

  • to change. This is according to a new poll conducted

  • by Kyodo News Agency. It showed that 60 percent of Japanese believe

  • the constitution should not be altered. Only 32 percent said it should be changed.

  • The figures indicate sentiment against changing the constitution may have grown amid Prime

  • Minister Shinzo Abe′s efforts to push through unpopular legislation to expand Japan′s

  • military role overseas. In addition， the poll found 52 percent of

  • respondents think Japan is going in the wrong direction， more than the 46 percent who

  • believe it is headed in the right direction. Kyodo News implemented the mail－based poll

  • from May to June to look into public opinion ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of

  • World War Two.

A majority of Japanese say they don′t want the country′s post－war pacifist constitution

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十個日本人中有六個人認為不應該修改憲法：일본인 60％ ＆。 (Six out of ten Japanese say Constitution should not be changed： poll 일본인 60％ ＆)

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    Jack posted on 2021/01/14
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