Polls held by Japan’s Kyodo News agency show that more than 40 percent of Japanese citizens oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet. This comes after the Japanese cabinet rubber-stamped a resolution on Tuesday that will allow the country to exercise the right of collective self-defense by reinterpreting the pacifist Constitution.

Polls conducted by major Japanese newspapers also showed that more than half of those polled opposed Prime Minister Abe’s attempt to lift the ban on collective self-defense. According to a survey conducted from June 27th to the 29th by Japan’ s Nikkei News, 54 percent of respondents say "No" to reinterpretation of Japan’s anti-war constitution, and only 29 percent of respondents support the move.

Kyodo News Agency reported that after cabinet approval, the government still needs to prepare the legal framework by revising and creating relevant laws to implement the policy change.