An emboldened Shinzo Abe has called for a debate on Japan's pacifist constitution. He said it was his "duty" to revise after a strong win in Sunday's elections.
Voters backed the hawkish prime minister, despite a lacklustre economic performance, handing his Liberal Democratic Party and its allies control of more than half of the upper house of parliament. Abe may now have the numbers to push through a change to the constitutional bar on Japanese troops waging war.
For more on the consequences of Abe to revise the constitution, we talked earlier with Jia Xiudong, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies.