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? Of course, critics from the left argue that the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan were already wars of aggression.
And my guess is that any German government who tries to strike the provision which outlaws wars of agression would commit political suicide. The only party I could imagine to do something like that would be the CDU/CSU. And even
if they come up with a idea like that, they would still need to get the two-third majority in order to amend the consitution.
Anyway, back to Japan... I admit that I don't hold much sympathy for the LDP. The fact that Abe is considered a representative of the party's conservative wing just makes me like him even less.
