TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is “confident” of progress in amending Japan’s pacifist Constitution, he said on Friday, in his first policy speech since his landslide election victory.

Abe’s conservative coalition held a two-thirds “super majority” in the 465-seat lower house last month, giving him the numbers to realize a long-held dream.

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