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Japanese Constitution. Question; What is the significance of Article 9 in the Japanese
Constitution? What are the implications of the moves to change it? ...
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Question; What is the significance of Article 9 in the Japanese Constitution? What are the implications of the moves to change it?
Introduction
It is said that Article 9 of Japanfs Constitution has been one of the controversial issue in Japanese post war politics. The so-called gpeace clauseh is also known as most controversial clause, which consists of two paragraphs. The first paragraph declares renunciation of war and the second declares renunciation of military forces and other war potential.
However, Japan has military forces called the Self Defence Forces. To avoid the appearance of militaristic revival, the each department of the forces were named the Ground Self Defence Force, the Maritime Self-Defence Force, and the Air Self-Defence Force, instead of the army, navy, and air force. However, although they do not have long range missiles or nuclear weapons to attack other countries, instead, they are very well equipped and are still one of the most powerful military forces in the world. Therefore, they are virtually no different from other military forces in the world. Certainly possession of these military forces contradicts Article 9 in the constitution. Besides, the Forces were established in 1954, only few years after the Japanese constitution came into force. Consequently, the nation has been contradicting its own constitution for more than 50 years and this has been the subject of controversy.
Some insist that it is for the sake of world peace to change the constitution so that Japan is able to maintain military forces and deploy them overseas, while others severely criticise this movement as a revival of militarism. Ultimately, Japan has to either, dissolve the SDF, or change the constitution for the first time since it was adopted, to be free from the prolonged and controversial contradiction.
Historical background
Soon after the defeat in World War Two, Japan was occupied by...
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