日本爲聯合國南蘇丹維和使命提供彈藥

Japan has provided a shipment of ammunition to a United Nations peacekeeping mission in troubled South Sudan, making it the first time since World war Two that Tokyo has given arms to a foreign military.

Responding to requests by the U.N., Japan said it gave 10,000 bullets late Monday to the South Korean military, which is part of an international force dealing with violence that threatens to return South Sudan to civil war.

Japan has a pacifist constitution and is subject to a self-imposed ban on arms exports. But Tokyo officials say the law allows the provision of arms as part of U.N. peacekeeping operations, with approval by the cabinet.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he would like to revise the constitution to allow for what he calls a more "proactive peace policy" around the world.

He has also proposed relaxing the decades-old ban on the export, development and production of Japanese weapons.日本爲聯合國南蘇丹維和使命提供了一批彈藥，這是日本自二戰結束以來首次爲外國軍隊提供軍火。

日本說，應聯合國的要求，日本於星期一晚間向韓國軍方交付了一萬發子彈。韓國軍人蔘加國際維和部隊，應對可能再度爆發內戰的南蘇丹的暴力。

按照日本的和平憲法，日本應自行禁止出口軍火。但東京官員說，法律允許日本在內閣批准的情況下爲聯合國維和行動提供軍火。

日本首相安倍晉三曾經表示，他願修改憲法，以便在世界各地實行更積極的和平政策。

安倍晉三還提議放鬆已經實行數十年的有關出口、研製及生產日本武器的禁令。