Shinzo Abe

[Colin]

Well he's more conservative than Koizumi, more willing to change the Japanese constitution to support Japanese troop deployments overseas in non-Defensive settings, and he is probably less likely to continue Koizumi's reforms. I'll have to see what he actually does before I have a more clear opinion of him.

[Colin]

So far: HP

Please elaborate. The move away from the Pacifist Constitution is going to happen, period, so expecting otherwise is foolhardy.

This doesn't mean I have to like it.

Aha! The same thing is happening in Germany, too.

Germany's constitution is less "pacifist" than Japan's... there's only a provision that "wars of aggression" are outlawed. Do you wan't to repeal that one?

Yeah why not? Those German wars of aggression make from some interesting history.