Critics of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bid to alter Japan's postwar pacifist Constitution say the fate of the July 10 Upper House election depends on whether people agree to the revision.

Liberals are desperately urging voters to say no to Abe and are calling for the abolition of controversial security legislation the prime minister forcibly rammed through the Diet last year.

But recent polls have suggested that voters have other priorities: For many, the economy and their everyday lives seem to take precedence.