Top court's ex-chief justice calls security bills unconstitutional

Top court's ex-chief justice calls security bills unconstitutional

Former Supreme Court chief justice Shigeru Yamaguchi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2015. He said the government's package of national security bills allowing Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense runs counter to the war-renouncing Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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