Japan enacts legislation for major shift in postwar security policy

Japan enacts legislation for major shift in postwar security policy

A man faces the Diet building in Tokyo to protest the enactment of legislation aimed at expanding the role of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces overseas at 2:22 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2015. The placard bears an antiwar message. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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