Today is Constitution Day. I think there is still the controversy between those who are for the revision of the Constitution and those who are against it but I don't so often hear about the arguement. More people than before are now for the revision, it seems.
The most controversial is the arguement about article 9, I think. So I will show you Article 9 in Japanese Constitution.
Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
2. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
What do you think of it? Japan is never at war with any contries for these 60 years and carried out the economic development. But the world is now threatened by the terrorism and Japan dispatched her Self-defence forces to Iraq. I wonder where Japan is going in the future.
