Japan eyes faster support for allies

TOKYO: Japan plans to draw up a law to speed up the deployment of troops overseas for peacekeeping operations and to support allies, reports said on Sunday, in a move that could strain relations with neighbors wary about Japan’s wartime history.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) plan to draw bills early next year aimed at facilitating administrative processes to deploy Japanese troops abroad, the leading business daily Nikkei and other media reported.