The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
As for the influence which demands revision of the constitution, the crude claim to want a war is born from there.
However, in recent years, the majority who supports such suggestion collapsed.
The people of the opinion that the ones which revised the Constitution in the various reasons become for Japan increased.
In the present Constitution, suddenly, saying being a pacifist constitution and so on, the number of the people who call like a just ordinary name, too, decreased.
I got the opportunity to touch directly from the quite early time in the true one end of this Constitution of Japan.
It was blessed with the valuable experience to meet the person who was the practice person in charge of the U.S. army which wrote this Constitution actually and to hear the process which the draft making is familiar with.
The practice person in charge is the Mr. Charles Kades who was a civil administration bureau sub director in the Allied Force headquarters in the U.S. army center (GHQ) which occupied Japan at the time of 1946.
He was a colonel when occupying.
It already was a lawyer before Japan-U.S. war begins, but it applied for the army and it worked in the European front as the officer of the law taking charge, it concerned Japan occupation after that and it became the staff of the General MacArthur.
Mr. Kades received the direction of the marshal and finished writing the Constitution of Japan draft in English with other law relation officers 10 several people from February 2nd until the 12th, in 1946.
The draft was made Japanese and became the Constitution with being effective just as it is.
Because Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution was made important especially, he who was the person in charge of the practice of the draft making took on the drafting personally.
It is in Wall Street in New York in 35 years after 1981 that I since then interviewed him.
He was working at the major law office as the lawyer.
With nearly 4 hour Q and A, Mr. Kades said surprisingly frankly.
I marveled most in it and it is the word of him that the biggest purpose of Japan's Constitution making was "do Japan beforehand as demilitarized forever" that learned deep emotion.
Moreover, it says to the guideline for Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution which he was given to from the boss that it had deleted that there was a regulation that Japan renounces a war to defend its own country in his own judgement.
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