The July 10 elections for the Upper House of the Japanese Diet produced a two-thirds “super majority” for Prime Minister Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and like-minded coalition partners.  This seems to ensure that Abe’s plan for constitutional revision can go forward since he now has the necessary majorities in both legislative Houses. Any move to amend or rescind the pacifist Article 9 of the post-War “MacArthur” constitution, however, would still face some rough sailing as it would require an electoral endorsement by Japanese voters. The well-known pacifist, anti-nuclear views of a large portion of the Japanese public, born of the