The following is from ‘Sankei extract’ of the Sankei Shimbun this morning.
It is an admirable article.
Emphasis is on me.
"We also abandoned the war as the trigger of the right of self-defense and the belligerence."
Shigeru Yoshida Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida explained in Article 9 of the new Constitution at the 1946 Constitutional Council.
Because it does not even admit the self-defense war, there is no reason why the SDF can be recognized under this interpretation.
I would like to keep in mind that this was the initial constitutional interpretation of the government
▼ Interestingly, the Communist Party strongly opposed Article 9.
Mr. Nosaka Sanzo, who also served as Chairman for 24 years, later expelled, on behalf of the party, appealed.
"This is only one empty sentence" "There is a danger of renouncing the right of self-defense of Japan and compromising the independence of the people"
▼At present, the adapting to new circumstances of the Communist Party which advocates article 9 protection, too, is skillfully.
But, our government, too, is not defeated.
Ohmura Seiichi Defense Agency Director general of the Defense Agency in 1954 announced the government's unanimous opinion that ‘exercising armed force as a means of defending the national land in case of armed attack does not violate the Constitution’
▼ Prime Minister Yoshida had to answer with ‘Many of the recent years of the war was carried out at the name of the Self-defence in international law,’ but, constitutional interpretation of the government were converted one hundred eighty degrees.
In the background, there is a circumstance that the Allied Forces General Headquarters (GHQ) tried to fill the strategic space caused by the dispatch of troops of the US occupation forces accompanying the Korean War, in Japan itself
▼ "It is needless to say that this ideal (Article 9) has to give way to the rule of self-preservation too obvious."
MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers was emphasizing that this is a yearly message given to Japanese citizens in 1951.
It is the extreme of expediency while he kept forcing Article 9 to Japan by himself.
▼ The Constitution, the enactment process, the deliberation process and the interpretation of the provision, including the fact that it is actually made of GHQ, has continued to deceive the makeshift so far.
While watching the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election debate sponsored by the Japanese press club on February 14, I felt keenly that it could not leave this situation again.