A majority of lawmakers in the ruling coalition want to postpone debate on the war contingency bills until next year.
Consensus is growing within the ruling coalition -- the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and the New Conservative Party -- that the extraordinary Diet session this fall should focus on economic measures rather than the set of three bills governing Japan's response to a foreign military attack.
"The extraordinary Diet session should put the most importance on economic and deflation measures that concern people the most," former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, an LDP member of the House of Representatives, recently said.