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is structured such that it allows for the keeping of arms is allowed for the maintenance of international peace.

Those in Japan, who earlier interpreted article 9 as not permitting Japan to maintain Armed Forces per se (including for the purpose of self defence), changed their interpretations fairly quickly. In fact, the speed with which Japan turned from a pacifist to a (more or less) 'normal' Country allowed to maintain Armed Forces for the defence of national territorial was impressive. In fact, the plan to make a pacifist for moral country out of Japan was abandoned even before the ink under of Japan's postwar constitution was dry. Then minister of State Kanamori e.g. Earlier maintained that article 9 does not allow Japan to have Armed Forces whatsoever, claimed only a few months after the adoption of the Constitution that 'The keeping of arms is allowed for the maintenance of international peace'.

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