65% feel Japan need not rush to debate Constitution revisions: poll

A total of 65 percent of the Japanese public see no need to rush to debate revisions to the Constitution in parliament, a Kyodo News poll showed Wednesday, despite Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's hope to make an amendment while in office.While 75 percent of survey respondents said it was necessary to revise the Constitution, which was drafted by U.S.-led occupation forces after World War II and has never been amended, there was division over rewriting the war-renouncing Article 9, with 51 percent in support and 46 percent against the move.Kishida has expressed that he intends to revise the C…READ FULL ARTICLE