The Washington Post reported that the nationalist who has pledged to make Japan a more robust force on the world stage, Shinzo Abe, won the contest to become leader of Japan's ruling party Wednesday, all but clinching election as prime minister next week. Abe favors revising Japan's peace constitution.

The acclaimed recent release JAPAN'S PEACE CONSTITUTION is a timely, hard-hitting documentary places the ongoing debate over the constitution in an international context: What will revision mean to Japan's neighbors, Korea and China? How is the unprecedented involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Force in the occupation of Iraq perceived in the Middle East?