article_snippet: since the Second World War as Japan continues expanding Japan military capability in an attempt to shed Japan post-war pacifism.
article_snippet: Abe seeks lawmaker approval to loosen the restraints of Japan's .
article_snippet: pacifist post-war constitution.
article_snippet: to keep within the bounds of a constitutional ban on owning the . means to wage war.
article_snippet: President Abe's attempts to ease Japan's pacifist constitution and Japan build up in defence capabilities is unnerving neighbour China.
article_snippet: Japan's constitution, known as the Peace Constitution, is most famous for the renunciation of the right to wage war.
article_snippet: It was drawn up under the Allied occupation which followed the Second World War and was intended to replace Japan's previous militaristic and absolute monarchy system with liberal democracy.
article_snippet: Japan's constitution was enacted on May 3, 1947.