The ruling Liberal Democratic Party called Thursday for all-party talks on revising the Constitution in areas they can agree upon, in an apparent bid to lower the bar for a first-ever revision of the U.S.-drafted charter.
The LDP aims to ultimately revise war-renouncing Article 9, a controversial proposal which presented by itself is unlikely to win early accord, opinion polls show.
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