A Major Shift in Japan’s Defense Policy

<正>The upper house of the National Diet of Japan—the Japanese equivalent of the U.S.Congress—enacted new security legislation on September 19that will allow its military,referred to as the Self-Defense Forces,to participate in military operations abroad for the first time since World War II(WWII).The bills,which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing for since July,also include laws that will ease restrictions on Japan's use of force