US backs change in Japan's pacifist constitution
BBC News : US questions Japan's pacifism
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says Japan must consider revising its pacifist constitution if it wants a permanent UN Security Council seat.
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Mr Powell told Japan's Kyodo news agency that the US supported Tokyo's quest for a permanent seat at the Security Council.
But he added that: "If Japan is going to play a full role on the world stage and become a full active participating member of the Security Council, and have the kind of obligations that it would pick up as a member of the Security Council, Article Nine would have to be examined in that light."
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Mr Armitage told a group of Japanese lawmakers that it would be difficult for Japan to become a permanent member of the Security Council if it could not have a greater military role in international peacekeeping.
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Both the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Democratic Party are in favour of a change in the constitution, but many lawmakers and members of the public are unwilling to renounce Japan's pacifist stance.
A poll published in May in the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper showed that 78% of Japanese lawmakers were in favour of making some changes to the constitution, but 70% were against alterations to Article Nine.
Pacifist constitution or selfish constitution?
Remember that the constitution said that the Japanese army can only be use for the self defense of its own country, it didn't said anything about the country can't participate in a war. Though in a kind of way, being selfish is being a pacifist.
Unfortunately, there are people who wish people to be not selfish.
And of course remember on who made the constitution in the first place after World War II.
'They' use the U.S.A. to made it, and 'they' too can use the U.S.A. to undo it.
Anyway. I don't mind a selfish constitution, if people would be more selfish, then the world would be a much better place, since that there would be less conflict because each people mind their own business.
The problem these days with government is that the people who controlled aren't from the inside, but instead from the outside.
Currently, the government of Japan wasn't in the control of a Japanese who wish to do things in his own way. Because if it did, then there will be a movement much like the Meiji restoration designed and executed to take the control away from him.