Sixty-two percent of people responding to a survey say the current government interpretation of the Constitution barring Japan from exercising the right to "collective self-defense" should remain intact, up 7.4 percentage points from the previous survey in April.
The telephone survey conducted over the weekend received responses from 1,054 eligible voters.
In Japan, the concept carries a sensitive political meaning because the pacifist Constitution did not foresee the security situation in East Asia today, in which the United States wants Japan to help shoot down North Korean missiles aimed at North America.