Head of the Japanese Communist Party secretariat Yamashita Yoshiki says the Japanese people will 'strongly' oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's attempt to revise the country's pacifist constitution, despite his victory in the upper house election on Sunday.
Abe's party won the majority of the seats.
It means that Abe's coalition and like-minded parties managed to take the two-thirds majority needed to try to revise the nation's post-war pacifist constitution.
But Yoshiki says winning the election does not mean the Japanese people will agree on revising the Constitution.
"He said 'economy' and 'Abenomics' 321 times but he didn't even mention about revising the constitution once. So, although his party won over two-thirds of the majority, it doesn't mean all the Japanese people have accepted the constitutional amendment proposal of his party or the constitution amending members of parliament as the issue of revising the constitution was not discussed before the election. So, if Abe wants to compulsively revise the constitution based on the election result, he will be strongly resisted by the Japanese people."
The Japanese Communist Party, together with several other parties, made efforts to safeguard the constitution and won six seats during the election.
Yoshiki says it means the Japanese people support their action and they will continue to strive to guard Japan's pacifism.
