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Commentary: Japan could send a message to North Korea, China by amending its constitution

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence on Aug. 28, 2020, in Tokyo.

In May of 2017, I was in Kyoto, Japan, sitting on the patio of a Starbucks while scrolling through news headlines on my phone. The top story that day was that North Korea had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which had landed in the Sea of Japan. Yet, everyone around me was carrying on with their day, seemingly unbothered.

It’s the sort of danger that the Japanese have come to live with. Japan

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