Japan’s military forces will soon be free to fight in defence of their US allies after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s security reforms passed a committee vote.
There were scenes of near-violence in Japan’s normally decorous parliament as opposition MPs mobbed the committee chairman to try to prevent a vote while the ruling party piled into a scrum to stop them.
Outside parliament, protesters braved torrential rain to condemn the law, highlighting the divisions it has created in Japanese society.
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