56% oppose amending Constitution under Abe gov't: Kyodo poll

More than half of Japanese voters oppose amending the postwar pacifist Constitution under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, a Kyodo news survey conducted after an upper house election showed Tuesday.In the two-day telephone survey from Monday, 56.0 percent opposed Abe's drive for constitutional revision, while 32.2 percent expressed support. Pro-amendment forces' failure in the election to retain a two-thirds majority in the upper chamber, required to initiate constitutional revision, was viewed positively by 29.8 percent and negatively by 12.2 percent.Abe's Liberal Democratic Party h…READ FULL ARTICLE