¶ … Japan's post World War II military rights and capabilities, an article that was written for the Japanese Constitution, following Japan's military defeat by the Allies in World War II, states, "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes." Based on that Constitutional decree, then, Japan has not had an army of its own since World War II. Japan now needs its own original independent army, and should have it for the 21st century, in order for Japan to maintain the economic and political respect it has earned for itself, internationally, since World War II, and because Japan also needs other nations' respect for its military capability in...
If Japan is not granted the military autonomy it needs and deserves, the strong possibly exists that it may instead forcibly seek such military autonomy, in order both to be able to defend its own separate national interests if necessary, and to assure itself the continued respect it deserves, economically, politically, and otherwise, from the rest of the world.
The Japanese army also should not be compelled by the United States to make any further commitments of troops to the Iraqi war effort. Most Japanese nationals do not support the war in Iraq, and Japan, like any other independent nation, is entitled to the right…
