Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Saturday he is willing to move forward with a plan to amend the Constitution in line with his party’s drive to transfer power to local governments.
“I would like to see the Constitution revised in the sense that the positions of the central government and local governments would be reversed,” Hatoyama said in a recording for a radio program.
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