Prime Minister calls changes to the constitution ‘imminent and important’; Kishida sends a video message to Pro-Revision Group

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a video message to a gathering of people in favor of constitutional revision in Tokyo on Friday, Japan’s Constitution Day.

Proposing a draft constitutional amendment that would be put to a national referendum, Kishida, who is also chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said in the message: “It is the responsibility of politics to present options to the people of this country because amending the Constitution is becoming an urgent and important issue.”