(VOVworld) - Japan's ruling and opposition parties continued to battle it out on Friday as controversial bills that would mark a major shift in the country's postwar security policy are set to be enacted despite strong protests from opposition lawmakers and voters.

Security personnel have a meeting as they inspect the assembly hall before the plenary session of the Upper House of the parliament in Tokyo on September 18. (Photo: Reuters)

Political wrangling spilled over on Friday morning, as the ruling camp rejected a no-confidence motion against the House of Councillors President Masaaki Yamazaki and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party.  But the no-confidence vote proposals were vetoed on Friday morning. The bills were rammed through the lower house in July amid an opposition walkout.  Designed to expand the scope of Self-Defense Forces operations overseas and for a more robust alliance with the United States, the legislation would enable Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the aid of the United States and other friendly nations under armed attack, even if Japan itself was not being attacked.