Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that Japan's pacifist Constitution stands out in the world for embodying peace and should be emulated, not revised.
"Japan is the only country that does not want to be involved in wars, aggressive wars," he said at a news conference after delivering a speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
"If Japan revises its Constitution and allows itself to go to war then I think we are making a very regressive step," he said. "Instead of promoting peace, Japan will join all the other countries in the world about using war to settle problems."