LDP to focus on 4 areas in crafting Constitution amendment proposal

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to focus on four areas as it crafts proposals for the first-ever amendments to Japan's postwar Constitution, including revisions regarding the war-renouncing Article 9 and education, officials said Tuesday.The LDP is gearing up toward amending the supreme law after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who doubles as head of the LDP, made a controversial proposal for revision of Article 9 last month and urged the LDP to present a plan by the end of the year."We will draw up the party's concrete proposals by the end of the year at the latest, which will be put …READ FULL ARTICLE