JAPAN LIFTS BAN ON LETHAL WEAPONS: 80 YEARS OF CONSTITUTIONAL PACIFISM SWEPT AWAY IN A SINGLE VOTEBLIND SPOTS
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The Three Principles of arms transfer are repealed -- end of five non-lethal categories
Covered by JAPANLegal exception for conflict zones involving U.S. military operations -- Taiwan implied in the background
Covered by JAPANArticle 9 of the Constitution: the 80-year legal fiction is officially buried
Covered by JAPANNPR: fighter jets, missiles, and destroyers now exportable -- inventory revealing the scope of change
Covered by UNITED STATESWars in Ukraine and the Middle East strain U.S. production -- Japan eases the pressure
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