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Election in the Bag, Japan Sets Sights on Expanding Military (LinkAsia: 7/19/13)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party looks likely to sweep parliamentary elections this weekend, which would give a green light for Abe to push for constitutional reform. LinkAsia talks to Dan Sneider, associate director of Stanford University's Asia Pacific Research Center, about what these changes could mean to the balance of power in the Pacific. Watch more at http://Linkasia.org IMAGE: Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's 1st Airborne Brigade Major Sakamitsu Katayama (C), 41, and other soldiers carry parachutes for parachute drop training during their military drill at Higashifuji training field in Susono, west of Tokyo, July 8, 2013. Japan faces increasingly serious threats to its security from an assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea, the defense ministry said in its first annual report since hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office: REUTERS/Issei Kato