{"id":3616,"date":"2014-12-28T09:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:10:23","slug":"japan-may-enact-law-to-speed-approval-of-troop-deployment-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Japan May Enact Law to Speed Approval of Troop Deployment – Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japan May Enact Law to Speed Approval of Troop Deployment – Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Japan<\/a>\u00a0may enact permanent legislation to accelerate the approval process for overseas troop deployments as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to expand the role of the nation\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

The government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party plan to submit such a bill to parliament next year, the Nikkei newspaper reported today without attribution. Currently, specific law must be enacted each time members of the Self-Defense Forces are dispatched overseas, Nikkei said.<\/p>\n

Abe\u2019s cabinet in July reinterpreted the pacifist constitution in place for nearly 70 years to let Japan take part in mutual defense with allies. Abe this month named Gen Nakatani, a National Defense Academy graduate who served five years of military service, as defense minister as he prepares to pass supporting legislation for that policy change.<\/p>\n

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Japan May Enact Law to Speed Approval of Troop Deployment – Bloomberg. Japan\u00a0may enact permanent legislation to accelerate the approval process for overseas troop deployments as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to expand the role of the nation\u2019s military. The government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party plan to submit such a bill to parliament next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[452,525,2188,2189],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-japan","tag-military","tag-self-defense-forces","tag-shinzo-abe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}