POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
RECONSTRUCTION OF JAPANS GOVERNMENT
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Japan can never declare war on a country ____ they can only strike back if they are attacked first.
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Japan cannot have a military, so citizens will have to train for war.
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Japan cannot ever go to war with the United States.
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Japan is only able to go to war if they are finished paying off their reparations to the USA.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the post-war constitution, Japan is not allowed to have offensive military forces. Its Article 9 declares “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes".
Detailed explanation-2: -Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution contains “No war” clause. It came into effect on May 3, 1947, immediately after World War II. The text of the article of the Japanese Government formally renounce war as a right of sovereignty and the refuses to settle disputes using military force.
Detailed explanation-3: -Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution (9, Nihon koku kenpō dai kyū-jō) is a clause in the national Constitution of Japan outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes involving the state. The Constitution came into effect on 3 May 1947, following World War II.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Potsdam Declaration (July 1945) Japan accepted at the end of the war, the wrongness of Japan’s war of aggression was confirmed. Article 9 was legislated under the understanding that the most effective means to guarantee Japan to never wage war again, was not to possess any war potential.
Detailed explanation-5: -Japan isn’t legally allowed to have a military, but Japan has a military. Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan bans war as a means of settling international disputes and outlaws the maintenance of a military.