TOKYO, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday announced its upper house election campaign pledges with focuses on economic growth and revision of the country's pacifist constitution.
The platform pledged to achieve an average real 2 percent economic growth in the future 10 years, reflecting Abe's economic growth strategy that aims at fighting against deflation.
The LDP said it will double incomes of farmers under a 10-year plan and promote public work projects to make infrastructure more disaster-proof, while maintaining the goal of achieving a primary balance surplus by 2021.
The LDP said it will revise the country's war-renouncing constitution so as to exercise collective self-defense rights and upgrade the Self-Defense Forces into a fully national army.
To reach the goal, the ruling party aims to amend Article 96 of the constitution to relax the rules for initiating a revision.
On the energy policy, the LDP is in favor of restarting the country's nuclear power plants that have been suspended since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was crippled by the disastrous tsunami in March 2011.
Despite strong opposition from Okinawa prefecture, the party said it will push forward the plan which was agreed by Japan and the United States to relocate the U.S. Futenma Air Base within the prefecture so as to show Abe's willingness to further enhance Japan-U.S. alliance.
The upper house election will kick off on July 21 and the official campaign will start on July 4.
The LDP, with 83 seats, is the second largest party in the 242- seat chamber, only three seats less than the Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition party.
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