TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people protested outside the Japanese prime minister’s office Monday in anticipation his government will reinterpret the constitution to allow Japan’s military a larger international role.

Several thousand people demonstrated to demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet scrap its plan, intended to allow the Japanese military to help defend other nations. It would be one of the biggest changes in Japan’s security policy since World War II.

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