Japan's former peacekeeper says security bills "halfway measures"

Japan's former peacekeeper says security bills "halfway measures"

Ryoji Takayama, who served as a battalion commander aide-de-camp on the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' first deployment to U.N. peacekeeping operations in Cambodia in 1992, shows a dummy antipersonnel mine during a speech in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2015. Takayama said that while he believes it necessary for Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense to be able to fully take part in international community obligations, the government's package of national security bills are "halfway measures" that merely seek to comply with U.S. expectations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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