As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled his new Cabinet on Wednesday, he vowed that his team would spare no effort to revise, for the first time in history, Japan's pacifist Constitution.
Experts see Mr Abe, 64, as trying to do so by surrounding himself with those who are ideologically similar and by curbing dissent, with the Premier due to step down by September 2021, after the end of his third consecutive three-year term as chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
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