Security bills show Japan's warmongering mentality

At a recent dinner with high-ranking media figures, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reportedly said the controversial security bills he had introduced in parliament were aimed at containing China, according to Japan's Gendai Business Weekly.

On Monday, the magazine reported that Japan's "security bills are targeted at China in the South China Sea". On the same day, the "Anti-war Committee of 1000", a Japanese civil group comprising Constitution scholars and authors, submitted a memorandum with more than 1.65 million signatures to the Diet, Japan's parliament, demanding that it withdraw the controversial bill and annul the decision to lift the ban on collective self-defense.

Japan's post-World War II defense system is undergoing structural changes thanks to Abe, who has been relentlessly pushing for the passage of the new security bills. By introducing the bills in the Diet, he is trying to lay the legal basis for Japan's militarization and help the United States contain China.