A Lower House panel submitted a final report Friday to Speaker Yohei Kono, stressing the need to amend the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 and to allow a female to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.
The 710-page report on revising the supreme code was endorsed by the Lower House's 50-member Research Commission on the Constitution, with a majority backed by members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior coalition partner, New Komeito, and the Democratic Party of Japan.
Members from the Japanese Communist Party and Social Democratic Party opposed the report.