集しゅう団だん的てき自じ衛えい権けん

noun

right of collective self-defense

A legal and political term referring to the right of a state to use force in defense of another state that is under armed attack, even if the defending state itself is not directly attacked. Often discussed in the context of Japan's constitutional interpretation.

• 日本にほん政せい府ふは集しゅう団だん的てき自じ衛えい権けんの行こう使しを限げん定てい的てきに認みとめる解かい釈しゃくを示しめした。

  The Japanese government presented an interpretation that allows limited exercise of the right of collective self-defense.

• 集しゅう団だん的てき自じ衛えい権けんをめぐる議ぎ論ろんは、憲けん法ぽう改かい正せいの焦しょう点てんの一ひとつとなっている。

  The debate over the right of collective self-defense has become one of the focal points of constitutional amendment.