Hostage Crisis Shows How Japan Fails to Protect Its Citizens -- And What It's Doing About It
Category: WORLDPOST
TOKYO -- It is unacceptable for a government to be unable to protect its own citizens. That is why Abe is determined to amend, or at least reinterpret, Japan's constitution to allow for the kinds of defense maneuvers that other countries, from Israel to India, employ when their people are threatened. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once put it, a constitution is not a suicide pact.
By Yuriko Koike, ContributorIncoming Governor of Tokyo, Japan's former Defense Minister an..., 2015-01-28