TOKYO, July 31 (UPI) -- The Japanese government is set to consider in next year's session a bill to enable it to deploy Japan's Self-Defense Forces overseas any time.
Government sources told the Kyodo News Service Saturday that the planned law will exempt the government from submitting bills to the Diet before sending the troops to foreign countries.
Currently, the government must enact laws to deploy SDF troops overseas such as the anti-terrorism law and the special law to support Iraqi reconstruction.
Article 9 of Japan's Constitution renounces use of force as means of settling international disputes, analysts said.
A special team within the Cabinet Secretariat has been assigned to research how other countries have restricted the use of weapons when they send their troops overseas.
