This weekend’s election in Japan was overshadowed by the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday. The election result now looks set to open up for a change in the country’s pacifist constitution, which was one of Abe’s main political goals.
Abe’s conservative party LDP and its coalition party Komeito are expanding their majority in the upper house, writes Japan Times. Together with other groups that want to change the constitution, they also get a two-thirds majority.
The Constitution of 1947 is interpreted as meaning that Japan may not use offensive weapons, e.g. long-range missiles.