40% Of The Candidates For The Ruling Party In Japan Support U.S. Military Action Against North Korea

Lawmakers raise their hands and shouts "banzai" (cheers) after the dissolution of lower house was announced at the Parliament in Tokyo, Japan September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Japan Times: Almost 40% of LDP candidates back U.S. military action against North Korea, survey finds

Nearly 40 percent of ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidates planning to run in the Oct. 22 general election support U.S. military action against North Korea if nuclear and missile issues cannot be resolved peacefully, a recent Kyodo News survey showed.

The survey, released Sunday, also showed that 72.5 percent of candidates expected to run on the ticket of the newly formed Kibo no To (Party of Hope) led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike are against amending Japan’s pacifist Constitution while Shinzo Abe remains prime minister.

The survey covered 1,028 candidates confirmed by last Thursday to be running in the election, of whom 948 responded by Sunday. The respondents included 268 from the LDP, 28 from Komeito, the LDP’s junior coalition ally, and 160 from Kibo no To, which has suddenly emerged as the apparent main rival to the LDP.

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WNU Editor: I am sure that if the question was changed .... will they support Japanese (not American) military action against North Korea .... the results would be very different (i.e. very little support for Japanese military involvement).