Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

Masahiko Komura, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 18, 2017. As the LDP is working on a proposal to amend the postwar Constitution for the first time, Komura says the principle of civilian control over the country's Self-Defense Forces should be made clear through an addition to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000112850
  • Registered date
  • 2017/7/19 19:45:52
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2017 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 2806 × 3956 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 661.72(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    New defense minister Onodera upbeat on SDF strike ability

    New defense minister Onodera upbeat on SDF strike ability

    New Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera attends an interview with Japanese media on Aug. 4, 2017, and said he looks positively on the possibility of Japan's Self-Defense Forces acquiring the ability to strike overseas targets to defend the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
      New defense minister Onodera upbeat on SDF strike ability

      New defense minister Onodera upbeat on SDF strike ability

      New Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera attends an interview with Japanese media on Aug. 4, 2017, and said he looks positively on the possibility of Japan's Self-Defense Forces acquiring the ability to strike overseas targets to defend the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
        Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

        Constitution should enshrine civilian control of SDF: LDP vice pres.

        Masahiko Komura, vice president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 18, 2017. As the LDP is working on a proposal to amend the postwar Constitution for the first time, Komura says the principle of civilian control over the country's Self-Defense Forces should be made clear through an addition to the war-renouncing Article 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
          Defense Minister Inada inspects MSDF base

          Defense Minister Inada inspects MSDF base

          Defense Minister Tomomi Inada inspects a Maritime Self-Defense Force base in the western Japan city of Kure on July 3, 2017. The visit came after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered a historic defeat in the Tokyo assembly election the previous day, apparently partly affected by controversial comments she had made in a stump speech about the Self-Defense Forces supporting one of the party's candidates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
            Opposition demands sacking of defense minister over SDF remark

            Opposition demands sacking of defense minister over SDF remark

            Defense Minister Tomomi Inada leaves her ministry in Tokyo surrounded by reporters on June 28, 2017. Japan's main opposition Democratic Party and three smaller parties the same day demanded Inada's dismissal over a remark that they say amounted to making political use of the Self-Defense Forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
              Opposition demands sacking of defense minister over SDF remark

              Opposition demands sacking of defense minister over SDF remark

              Defense Minister Tomomi Inada leaves her ministry in Tokyo surrounded by reporters on June 28, 2017. Japan's main opposition Democratic Party and three smaller parties the same day demanded Inada's dismissal over a remark that they say amounted to making political use of the Self-Defense Forces. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                LDP heavyweight calls for talks on whether SDF are "military forces"

                LDP heavyweight calls for talks on whether SDF are "military forces"

                Photo taken in Tokyo in February 2017 shows former Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba. The veteran lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said on June 14, 2017 that his party should explore the issue of whether to recognize the Self-Defense Forces as a "military" during discussions on changing Japan's postwar Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                  Top officer says will be "thankful" if Constitution mentions SDF

                  Top officer says will be "thankful" if Constitution mentions SDF

                  Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' Joint Staff, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on May 23, 2017. Kawano indicated his support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent proposal to consider stipulating the existence of the SDF in the first-ever change to the postwar Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                    Japan's opposition demands defense chief quit over S. Sudan issue

                    Japan's opposition demands defense chief quit over S. Sudan issue

                    Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano, chief of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' Joint Staff, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2017. Kawano said recently released daily activity logs of Japanese troops in South Sudan from July 2016 should have been reported the instant they were found, while the Democratic Party demanded Defense Minister Tomomi Inada resign, claiming she downplayed the seriousness of the conflict there by not describing it as "combat." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
                      SDF planes leave to evacuate Japanese in S. Sudan

                      SDF planes leave to evacuate Japanese in S. Sudan

                      Japanese Air Self-Defense Force members prepare to board C-130 Self-Defense Forces aircraft at Komaki Air Base in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on July 11, 2016, to fly to South Sudan to evacuate Japanese nationals there in response to renewed fighting in the East African country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo