By Jill Reilly The Japanese Prime Minster has vowed to lift a ban on Japanese military fighting overseas in a move that will raise tension with China. Signalling a potential landmark change in a security policy long constrained by a pacifist, post-war constitution Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that Japan would stick to a peaceful path and not again become a 'country that wages war'. 'Japan has walked the path of a peaceful country for nearly 70 years since the end of World War Two. That path will not change. Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe  has vowed to lift a ban on Japanese military fighting overseas in a move that will raise tension with China
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that Japan would stick to a peaceful path
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He said his country will not again become a 'country that wages war'
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Tensions due to China's assertiveness and North Korea's nuclear threat
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US backs Abe's push for a larger military role
@placeholder's handpicked advisers said Japan's increasingly tough security environment meant the nation could not defend itself fully under the current interpretation of the constitution.