To arm or not to arm...: rethinking the constitution. (Japan)

Commonweal | February 26, 1993| | Copyright

Despite Japan's reputed aversion to military matters, its troops have slowly but steadily been built up so that they now constitute one of the world's ten strongest armed forces. The reality of postwar Japan has been that, while leaving its American-imposed "peace" constitution intact and publicly adhering to the idea of an unarmed country, the government of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) has, in fact, been overseeing a gradual transition to a significantly armed nation with looser interpretations of the 1947 constitution.

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