"We have just gone through a period when people in Japan felt extreme anxiety about national security, " Yasuhide Nakayama, a lawmaker who heads the LDP's National Defense Division responsible for the recommendations, said in an interview Thursday.
At one extreme, France, Russia and Japan argue that it should be able to examine a case only with the agreement of governments involved in some way, either as combatants, victims or custodians of the accused.
His father built North Korea on the centralized economic principles of the Stalin-era Soviet Union and the extreme-nationalis t politics of 1930s fascist Japan.