Richard Tanter: JAPAN: One step closer to revising constitution, Sonja Heydeman, Radio Australia – Australia, 2007-04-17
“The fact that the ruling Liberal democratic party and its allies pushed this through the lower house of their parliament against the very vocal literally shouting opposition from the opposition parties just a matter of days after the visit by the Chinese premier is quite startling and undoubtedly China will react very strongly against this as will South Korea and probably less importantly North Korea.”