Right to collective self-defense

Right to collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 16, 2014. Isozaki said the government will seek to allow the Self-Defense Forces to respond to armed attacks on allies with "close ties" to Japan, in the event Japan reinterprets the Constitution to allow the country to exercise the right to collective self-defense.

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, attends a session of the upper house special committee on security bills in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2015, to apologize for remarks taken as downplaying the need for the bills being deliberated in the Diet to be consistent with the Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, attends a session of the upper house special committee on security bills in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2015, to apologize for remarks taken as downplaying the need for the bills being deliberated in the Diet to be consistent with the Constitution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan upper house election

Japan upper house election

Yosuke Isozaki of the Liberal Democratic Party bows in Oita, southwestern Japan, after losing in the House of Councillors election on July 21, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Abe aide apologizes for remarks on security bills

Yosuke Isozaki, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prepares to leave the chamber of the upper house special committee on security bills in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2015, after apologizing for remarks taken as downplaying the need for the bills being deliberated in the Diet to be consistent with the Constitution. Isozaki, however, declined to step down against the opposition demand to do so. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo