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2 unusual facts about Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution


Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution

Some Allied leaders saw the emperor as the primary factor in Japan's warlike behavior.

The article also states that, to accomplish these aims, armed forces with war potential will not be maintained, although Japan maintains de facto armed forces, referred to as the Japan Self-Defense Forces which may have originally been thought of as something akin to what Mahatma Gandhi called the Shanti Sena (soldiers of peace) or a collective security police (peace keeping) force operating under the United Nations.


Shigeru Iwasaki

He has presided over a number of significant national security issues, including the renewed Senkaku Islands dispute and the possible revision of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution (following the Liberal Democratic Party's landslide electoral victory in December 2012).


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