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Statement by Save Constitutional Democracy Japan, a group of law professors and legal experts, denouncing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to spell out the legal status of the Self-Defense Forces in the Constitution, by adding a clause on the SDF in the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution.
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The Diet has effectively 'collapsed' as the Abe administration wields so much control in both chambers that it can basically do, and is doing, whatever it wants.
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Steven C. Schulz
Most of the world is content with Westminster parliamentarianism despite it inevitability leading to more-or-less temporary one-party rule. This is the consequence, for good or ill. Maybe the separation of powers in presidential systems aren't that bad - at least there's a chance of divided government.