Plans are underway to stipulate that the right to collective self-defense can only be exercised when Japan is directly threatened by regional "contingencies," particularly on the Korean Peninsula, according to a government source.
Narrowing the definition of what constitutes a threat to national security is one way to put stricter conditions on using the banned right to defend allies under attack, the source said Saturday.
These conditions are being prompted by the Liberal Democratic Party's need to persuade coalition partner New Komeito to back its effort to bypass the amendment process in revising the Constitution.