Security Related Bills
Passed by the plenary session of the House of Representatives
Protesters demonstrate outside the Japanese Diet building on July 16, 2015, Tokyo, Japan, After a lower house panel yesterday approved the reinterpretation of Article 9 enabling the nation's troops to fight on overseas soil for the first time since the end of the Second World War, thousands of protesters have been gathering outside the Parliament building daily. The bills approved by the lower house lawmakers of the ruling coalition are now set to move to a vote in the main chamber on Friday July 16th. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)