Peace out: is Takaichi putting Japan’s pacifist constitution on the chopping block?

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pursuing the first ever revision of her country’s post-World War II pacifist constitution, a step that observers say is likely to be welcomed in Washington and condemned in Beijing.Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured a historic two-thirds majority in the National Diet’s lower house in February’s election, passing the threshold needed to pass constitutional amendments without other parties’ support.“An independent constitutional amendment by the hands of the Japanese people is our party’s long-cherished goal,” Takaichi said at the LDP’s annual convention on Monday. Among the policies adopted at the event is the goal of submitting draft amendments to legislature.