(4)Diet panel issues Constitution revision report

TOKYO, Japan - Taro Nakayama (R), head of a House of Representatives panel on the Constitution, speaks at a press conference after submitting his panel's final report calling for revisions to the supreme law, including changes to the war-renouncing Article 9, to lower house Speaker Yohei Kono. This is the first time for Japan's post-World War II parliament in nearly 60 years of its history to come up with support for revisions to the Constitution since it was promulgated in 1946. (Kyodo)

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