Nearly 60% of Japanese people oppose the security bill.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the latest nationwide opinion poll released on June 21st showed that 58.7% of Japanese people oppose the security bill package proposed by the government, an increase of 11.1% compared to the poll in May.

Protests against the new security bill in Japan. (Source: AFP/VNA)

A telephone poll conducted by Kyodo News over the weekend also indicated that 56.7% of respondents considered the bills "unconstitutional," while only 29.2% considered them "constitutional." According to the poll results, support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government also fell by 2.5% to 47.4% compared to the previous poll.

Last week, a poll of constitutional researchers showed that about 98% of the 149 experts surveyed said the security bills violated Japan's war renunciation constitution. This constitution prohibits the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) from exercising the right of collective self-defense.

According to the security bill currently under discussion, the SDF could be deployed anywhere in the world to participate in armed conflicts as part of collective self-defense, even if Japan is not attacked.

(According to AFP, Xinhua/VN+)