Aquino explains backing for Japan's new self-defense policy

TOKYO, Japan - Philippine President Benigno Aquino meets delegates from the Japan National Press Club at the presidential palace in Manila on Nov. 4, 2014. During the meeting, Aquino said he backs the Japanese government's reinterpretation of the Japanese Constitution to allow the exercise of the right of collective self-defense because of the situation Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights have encountered since 2013. (Kyodo)

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