The ruling parties on Thursday proposed establishing a constitutional amendment drafting committee soon within the Commission on the Constitution in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet.
At the first debate of the commission in the ongoing Diet session, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, as well as five opposition parties, presented their positions on how to proceed with deliberations.
The plan to introduce an article on national emergencies “has reached a stage to hammer out a draft at long last,” Yoshitaka Shindo of the LDP said. The party has long discussed creating the article.