LDP won in the last election. The last election is focused on privatising Japan Post. It was not about making the agency of self-defense forces a ministry of self-defense forces. The celebration of LDP's 50th of organisation of its own overwhelms and influences some radical change of Japanese politics.
Whether our constitution was enormously influenced by post-war American occupation in Japan or not, don't we love our constitution, including article number 9? This constitution made fundamentals of present democratic, liberal Japan.
We don't need overpowered military. We have to find an alternative way to solve conflicts around the world. Japan shouldn't be controlled by the U.S. anymore because American idealists entrusted to Japan to have world without conflicts and wars.
"Be realistic," most of people around the world would say, but a small light that American idealists put on is still alive in our constitution. Don't turn ourselves into old power games of the 20th century.
As a dog of the U.S., don't let the U.S. overdriven. We have to bite them back to warn them with this article number 9.
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The idea that a country's constitution renounces war is, of course, a good one (if not misguided in a world of aggressive states). But as you suggest, Article 9, worked (as designed) to strip Japan of a sovereign state's right to resort to ultimate force (war), BUT all the article does is transfer that right to another state (U.S.A.). A serious blow to sovereignty at best, and now with few world players in agreement with U.S. foreign policy, a dangerous tow line that leaves Japan to follow the United States on matters of foreign policy. And while getting to avoid the costs of building a powerful, modern army in the later half of the 20th C. was a clear economic advantage for Japan, the other "costs" are, perhaps, considerably higher.
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