People protest against Abe's hand-picked panel of right-leaning experts attend a rally in front of the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, May 15, 2014. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a press conference Thursday that he aims to lift the ban on exercising collective self-defense by reinterpreting the pacifist constitution as a panel report proposed earlier in the day. (Xinhua/Stinger) |