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(Kyodo) - A majority of a House of Representatives panel on Japan's Constitution has drafted a final report supporting Japan's proposed participation in international cooperation and collective security activities, panel sources said Tuesday. The support is apparently aimed at Japan's participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations mainly based on U.N. resolutions. The draft report also calls for Japan to maintain the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution, the sources said. The report, which will be submitted next month to House of Representatives Speaker Yohei Kono, showed that a majority approved the continued existence of a system that recognizes the...