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Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution: Remove, Not Remove?
Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution: Remove, Not Remove? The current Japanese constitution was promulgated in 1947 as an amendment of the 1889 Meiji constitution. Its Article 9, the famous “peace clause,” states that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as…