The revolution will not be televised, they say, but this one was — and publicised, a lot. And yet, for all the hundreds of thousands who gathered at the Diet and all around Japan over the summer, for all the placards in the streets and the cow-walking in the parliament in September — the security bills still passed.
In the future ‘democratic’ wars of the United States, there will be a new active ally – Japan. This world experiment in pacifism has not yet ended in failure, but it is up to the world to realise the significance and the possibilities it represents.
Keito Hirabayashi | Every attempt to weaken the Peace Constitution has met with popular protest in Japan. Indeed the ratification of the treaty with America brought vast numbers of people onto the streets, exactly 55 years ago.
日本の世界におけるユニークなポジション、つまり「積極的な軍事手段に訴えない国」という有意義で価値ある立ち位置が、安倍政権による戦争法案によって薄められつつあります。国際紛争を好戦的手段で解決しないという憲法９条の精神が掘り崩されようとしています。
The unique status of Japan, as a country with no active military, stands to be diluted today as the right-wing PM Shinzo Abe is going to bring security laws in the parliament undermining the Article-9 of the Japanese constitution that prohibits it from keeping an army and resorting to belligerence in international affairs.
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