Better coordination can nail Abe's lies

Despite strong protests, the lower house of Japanese parliament passed two contentious security bills last month that tilt the country more toward war than security. According to Japanese law, the bills will be legally effective after the second approval by the lower house even if the upper house rejects it. By railroading the bills through the bicameral parliament, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has crossed the Rubicon.

Surveys show nearly 60 percent Japanese people are against the security bills, and more than 95 percent legal experts think the "right to collective self-defense" would be a violation of Japan's Constitution. But Abe and his supporters have already embarked on a road of no return.

Even 70 years after the end of World War II, Japanese people feel numb at the mention of war. So how did Japan change from an anti-nuclear-weapon, light-armored big economy to a country eager to send troops across the world? It seems the Japanese conservative politicians have been hatching this plot since the end of the Cold War. On the pretext of making Japan a "normal country", they want to overturn the postwar world order, incidentally shaped by the US.