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is a model for achieving an international culture of peace and a model for all countries in order to reduce the threat of war.

In order to strive towards a goal, a template for how to assert and actualise the stepstowards it is important. According to many people struggling to preserve and spread it, Article 9 of Japan's constitution, the clause eliminating the right of the state to wagewar, is a model for achieving an International Culture of Peace. For example, in 1999The Hague Appeal for Peace selected Article 9 of Japan's constitution as a model forall countries in order to reduce the threat of war.

is a non-justiciable, political question to be resolved by the government.

The Supreme Court claims Article 9 is a non-justiciable, political question to be resolved by the government.' Rather, the Court, in what .

is actually two different versions: The english version that purports to prevent Japanese from rearming and insist on Japanese pacifism, and the Japanese version that is less absolute and imprecise.

there are two versions of Article 9: the English version that purports to prevent Japan from rearming and insist on Japanese pacifism, and the Japanese version that is less absolute and imprecise.

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is effectively a rejection of the right to keep any military force or war potential whatsoever.

The Japan Socialist Party QSP) claims that Article 9 effectively rejects the right to keep any military force or war potential . . .

is, for Japanese nationalist groups, a shameful relic of the war, a badge of disgrace, a humiliation imposed by the war's victors, designed to hobble Japanese's international status permanently. In order to recover Japanese's full sovereignty and international prestige.

For some Article 9 is a shameful relic of the war, a badge of disgrace thatJapan is forced to wear. It is therefore not difficult to understand why traditionalJapanese nationalist argue that the postwar Constitution is a source of nationalhumiliation imposed by the war's victors. From this nationalist perspective,Article 9 is designed to hobble Japan's international status permanently. In orderto recover Japan's full sovereignty and international prestige, they argue, theConstitution must be rewritten.

is, for the social democratic party, considered the best way to meet a continuing need to prevent Japanese from becoming involved in aggressive military activities.

The Social Democratic Party, however, has remained consistent in its support for Article 9. As it has in the past, the party sees a continuing need to prevent Japan from becoming involved in aggressive military activities and believe that preserving Article 9 is the best way to do this.

is highly regarded abroad for its ability to check the possibility that Japanese could become a country that seeks after its own national interest by sword-rattling. To asian neighbors, the article is a symbol of what prevents Japanese from becoming a dangerous country.

Ultimately, it should be stressed that Article 9 is highly regarded abroad for its ability to check the possibility htat Japan could become a country that seeks after its own national interest by sword-rattling. To Asian neighbors, the article is a symbol of what prevents Japan from becoming a dangerous country.

is Japanese's apology for its military imperialism towards the countries of asia. As such, eliminating it is tantamount to renouncing that apology.

According to Chalmers Johnson, author of Sorrows of Empire (2004), Article 9 represents Japan's apology for its military imperialism towards the countries of Asia, and to eliminate Article 9 would be to renounce that apology (Junkerman 2005).

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