The verbal war over the national security bills is heating up now that Japan's constitutional scholars have clearly branded Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reinterpretation of war-renouncing Article 9 and all legislation based on it as unconstitutional.
But when all is said and done, it will probably be the Supreme Court, not the nation's scholars, that makes the call on the validity of Abe's attempt to broaden Japan's military reach through the government-sponsored legislation without amending the Constitution first.
Will the Supreme Court be asked to issue a ruling? Who would it favor, Abe or the scholars?